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Adjective: bound bawnd- Confined by bonds
"bound and gagged hostages" - Held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
- Secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
"bound volumes"; "leather-bound volumes" - (usually followed by 'to') governed by fate
"bound to happen" - destined - Covered or wrapped with a bandage
"an injury bound in fresh gauze" - bandaged - Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in 'college-bound students'
"children bound for school" - destined - Bound by an oath
"a bound official" - Bound by contract
- apprenticed, articled, indentured - Confined in the bowels
"he is bound in the belly" Verb: bound bawnd- Move forward by leaps and bounds
"The horse bounded across the meadow" - jump, leap, spring - Form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- border - Place limits on (extent or access)
- restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, confine, throttle - Spring back; spring away from an impact
- bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet Noun: bound bawnd- A line determining the limits of an area
- boundary, edge - The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
- boundary, bounds - The greatest possible degree of something
"what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behaviour" - limit, boundary - A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bounce Verb: bind (bound) bInd- Stick to firmly
- adhere, hold fast, bond, stick, stick to - Create social or emotional ties
- tie, attach, bond - Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope
"The Chinese would bind the feet of their women" - Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose
- bandage - Secure with or as if with ropes
- tie down, tie up, truss - Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- oblige, hold, obligate - Provide with a binding
"bind the books in leather" - Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- tie - Form a chemical bond with
"The hydrogen binds the oxygen" - Cause to be constipated
- constipate
Derived forms: bounds, bounding, bounded See also: bindable, binder, bindery, binding, bounder, brassbound, cased, certain, chained, conjugate, conjugated, constipated, enchained, fettered, furled, half-bound, orientated, oriented, paperback, paperbacked, paperbound [US], pinioned, rolled, shackled, sure, sworn, tethered, tied, treated, trussed, unfree, well-bound, wired Type of: attach, check, confine, contain, control, cover, curb, enclose, extent, extremity, fasten, fix, hold, hold in, indispose, jump, jumping, line, moderate, move, relate, restrain, secure Antonym: free, unbind, unbound Encyclopedia: Bind Bind, Torture, Kill Bound |