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单词 bound
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boundadjective

uk/baʊnd/us/baʊnd/

bound adjective (CERTAIN)

B2 [ after verb ] certain or extremely likely to happen:

[ + to infinitive ] You're bound to forget people's names occasionally.
You're bound to feel nervous about your interview.
These two young musicians are bound for international success (= are certain to be successful).
be bound and determined US

to be seriously intending to do something:

They are bound and determined to build their own house someday.
I'll be bound UK old-fashioned

I am certain:

He's in the pub, I'll be bound.

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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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Strong-willed
Confidence & self-assurance

bound adjective (FORCED)

[ after verb, + , to, infinitive ] having a moral or legal duty to do something:

The company is bound by a special agreement to involve the union in important decisions.
She feels (duty)-bound to tell him everything.

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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.:

We found the girl bound and gagged.

(of a book) having a cover made of paper, leather, or other material:

The book was bound in shiny green leather.

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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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Covering and adding layers

bound adjective (DIRECTION)

C1 [ after verb ] going to:

She was on a plane bound for Moscow when she got sick.

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:

The town is bounded on one side by a river.

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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:

With one bound the dog was over the fence.

bound noun (LIMIT)

bounds [ plural ]

legal or social limits:

The committee felt that newspaper coverage of the murder went beyond reasonable bounds.
What you did was beyond/outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour.
His desire for political power apparently knows no bounds (= seems to be unlimited).

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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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Idiom(s)

out of bounds

-boundsuffix

uk/ -baʊnd/us/ -baʊnd/

-bound suffix (DIRECTION)

travelling in the stated direction:

Northbound traffic is moving very slowly because of the accident.
US The line did not close completely, but inbound and outbound trains (= trains which were arriving and leaving) had to share one of the two tracks near the station.

-bound suffix (PREVENTING LEAVING)

(causing people to be) unable to leave a place because of an unwanted condition:

During his long illness he was completely housebound (= he could not leave the house).
She has been wheelchair-bound for several years.
The airport was completely fogbound (= covered by fog).

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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 suffix (COVERED)

used to describe a book that is covered or held together in the stated way:

a leather-bound book
a spiral-bound notebook

used to describe clothes or other objects that have edges covered in the stated way:

leather-bound cuffs

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Covering and adding layers

  • asphalt
  • bestrew
  • binder
  • blanket
  • blindfold
  • carpet
  • coat
  • film
  • film over
  • fur
  • gild
  • gum sth up
  • inlay
  • lag
  • pad
  • proof
  • resurface
  • seal
  • swathe
  • whitewash

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Decorating or making something attractive
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