boundadjective
uk/baʊnd/us/baʊnd/bound adjective (CERTAIN)
B2 [ after verb ] certain or extremely likely to happen:
to be seriously intending to do something:
I am certain:
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Certainty
- (as) clear as day idiom
- (as) sure as eggs is eggs idiom
- and that's flat! idiom
- assured
- assuredly
- bet
- cut and dried
- decided
- decidedly
- definite
- definitely
- doubt
- indeed
- natch
- pronounced
- proof positive
- seal
- set/put the seal on sth idiom
- shadow
- signed and sealed idiom
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bound adjective (FORCED)
[ after verb, + , to, infinitive ] having a moral or legal duty to do something:
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Duty, obligation and responsibility
- accountable
- answer for sb/sth
- answer for sth
- answer to sb
- answerable
- brother
- commitment
- fail
- I am not my brother's keeper idiom
- in the hot seat idiom
- incharge
- it's your own lookout idiom
- job
- portfolio
- responsible
- risk
- saddle sb with sth
- social contract
- stick
- stick sb with sth
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bound adjective (FASTENED)
tied with rope, cord, string, etc.:
(of a book) having a cover made of paper, leather, or other material:
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Lack of freedom to act
- be in bondage to sth idiom
- be locked in sth
- bondage
- bound
- boxed in
- hand
- lock
- option
- paralysis
- paralytic
- qualified
- regimented
- sb's hands are tied idiom
- tether
- thumb
- tie
- tool
- tyranny
- under sb's thumb idiom
- under the heel of sth/sb idiom
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bound adjective (DIRECTION)
C1 [ after verb ] going to:
boundverb
uk/baʊnd/us/baʊnd/bound verb (JUMP)
[ I usually + adv/prep ] to move quickly with large jumping movements
bound verb (BORDER)
[ T usually passive ] to mark or form the limits of:
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Territorial boundaries
- border
- boundary
- checkpoint
- frontier
- no-man's-land
- state line
- the Iron Curtain
- the Mason-Dixon Line
bound verb (TIE)
past simple and past participle of bind verb
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Fastening and tying
- attach
- be locked together idiom
- board sth up
- bolt
- bow 1
- buckle
- buckle up
- bundle
- ligature
- mount
- nail
- put sth up
- reef knot
- rivet
- rope
- screw
- tie
- truss
- tying
- yoke
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boundnoun
uk/baʊnd/us/baʊnd/bound noun (JUMP)
[ C ] a quick, long jump:
bound noun (LIMIT)
legal or social limits:
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Range and limits
- all the way to idiom
- ambit
- band
- boundary
- breadth
- catchment area
- condition
- limited
- meta-
- narrow
- narrowly
- parameter
- range
- spread
- stricture
- string
- strings attached idiom
- term
- the gamut
- threshold
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