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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | bound | Held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union |
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| 2 | bound | Confined by bonds | |
| 3 | bound | Secured with a cover or binding | |
| 4 | bound, destined | (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | |
| 5 | bound, bandaged | Covered or wrapped with a bandage | |
| 6 | bound, destined | Headed or intending to head in a certain direction | |
| 7 | bound | Bound by an oath | |
| 8 | bound, apprenticed, articled, indentured | Bound by contract | |
| 9 | bound | Confined in the bowels | |
| NOUN | 1 | bound, boundary, edge | A line determining the limits of an area |
| 2 | bound, boundary, bounds | The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | |
| 3 | bound, leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bounce | A light springing movement upwards or forwards | |
| VERB | 1 | bound, jump, leap, spring | Move forward by leaps and bounds |
| 2 | bound, border | Form the boundary of | |
| 3 | bound, restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, confine, throttle | Place limits on (extent or access) | |
| 4 | bound, bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet | Spring back |
| Sounds | baw'nd |
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| Rhymes | abound, aground, around, and 55 more rhymes in awnd at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union. |
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| Category | chemistry, chemical science; physics, physical science, natural philosophy |
| Similar | conjugate, conjugated; conjugate, conjugated |
| Contrary | free |
| Meaning | Confined by bonds. |
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| Examples | "bound and gagged hostages" |
| Similar | chained, enchained, in chains; fettered, in bonds, in fetters, shackled; furled, rolled; pinioned; tethered; trussed, tied; wired |
| See also | unfree |
| Contrary | unbound |
| Meaning | Secured with a cover or binding. Often used as a combining form. |
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| Examples | "bound volumes"; "leather-bound volumes" |
| Similar | brassbound; cased; half-bound; paperback, paperbacked; well-bound |
| Contrary | unbound |
| Meaning | (usually followed by `to') governed by fate. |
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| Examples | "bound to happen" |
| Synonyms | destined |
| Similar to | certain, sure |
| Meaning | Covered or wrapped with a bandage. |
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| Examples | "an injury bound in fresh gauze" |
| Synonyms | bandaged |
| Similar to | treated |
| Meaning | Headed or intending to head in a certain direction. Often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'. |
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| Examples | "children bound for school" |
| Synonyms | destined |
| Similar to | oriented, orientated |
| Meaning | Bound by an oath. |
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| Examples | "a bound official" |
| Similar to | sworn |
| Meaning | Bound by contract. |
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| Synonyms | apprenticed, articled, indentured |
| Similar to | unfree |
| Meaning | Confined in the bowels. |
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| Examples | "he is bound in the belly" |
| Similar to | constipated |
| Meaning | A line determining the limits of an area. |
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| Synonyms | boundary, edge |
| Narrower | rim; margin, border, perimeter; periphery, fringe, outer boundary; brink, threshold, verge; upper bound; lower bound; thalweg |
| Broader | line |
| Verbs | bound; bound |
| Meaning | The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something. |
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| Synonyms | boundary, bounds |
| Narrower | hairline; frontier; heliopause; boundary line, border, borderline, delimitation, mete; bourn, bourne; district line; county line; city line; edge, border; end; limit, demarcation, demarcation line; outline, lineation; Rubicon; surface; shoreline |
| Broader | extremity |
| Verbs | bound; bound |
| Meaning | A light springing movement upwards or forwards. |
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| Synonyms | leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bounce |
| Narrower | caper, capriole; pounce |
| Broader | jump, jumping |
| Verbs | bound; bound |
| Meaning | Move forward by leaps and bounds. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
| Examples | "The horse bounded across the meadow" |
| Synonyms | jump, leap, spring |
| Caused by | jump, leap |
| Narrower | pronk; bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet; burst; bounce; capriole; galumph; ski jump; saltate; vault; leapfrog; vault, overleap; curvet; hop, skip, hop-skip; caper; hop |
| Broader | move |
| Nouns | bounder; bound |
| Meaning | Form the boundary of. Be contiguous to. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | border |
| Narrower | skirt; verge; shore |
| Broader | enclose, hold in, confine |
| Nouns | boundary, bound; boundary, bound |
| Meaning | Place limits on (extent or access). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
| Synonyms | restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, confine, throttle |
| Narrower | reduce, tighten; tie; gate; draw the line, draw a line; mark off, mark out; rule, harness, rein; baffle, regulate; hamper, halter, cramp, strangle; stiffen, tighten, tighten up, constrain; clamp down, crack down; inhibit; restrain, encumber, cumber, constrain |
| Broader | control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate |
| Nouns | bound; bound |
| Meaning | Spring back. Spring away from an impact. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
| Synonyms | bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet |
| Narrower | kick back, recoil, kick; skip, bound off; carom, glance |
| Broader | jump, leap, bound, spring |
| Nouns | bound |