Bound is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BOUND in dictionary:

VERB:
• to leap
• tie or fasten (something) tightly together
• restrain (someone) by tying their hands and feet
• wrap (something) tightly
• bandage (a wound)
• (of an object) be encircled by something, typically metal bands, so as to have greater strength
• stick together or cause to stick together in a single mass
• cause (painting pigments) to form a smooth medium by mixing them with oil.
• hold by chemical bonding
• combine with (a substance) through chemical bonding
• (of a food or medicine) make (someone) constipated.
• cause (people) to feel united
• cause someone to feel strongly attached to (a person or place)
• impose a legal or contractual obligation on
• indenture (someone) as an apprentice
• make a contractual or enforceable undertaking
• (of a court of law) require (someone) to fulfil an obligation, typically by paying a sum of money as surety
• be hampered or constrained by
• fix together and enclose (the pages of a book) in a cover
• trim (the edge of a piece of material) with a decorative strip
• (of a quantifier) be applied to (a given variable) so that the variable falls within its scope. For example, in an expression of the form ‘For every x, if x is a dog, x is an animal’, the universal quantifier is binding the variable x.
• (of a rule or set of grammatical conditions) determine the relationship between (coreferential noun phrases).
• To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
• To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
• To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
• To rebound, as an elastic ball.
• To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
• To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
• Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.
• move forward by leaps and bounds
• form the boundary of; be contiguous to
• place limits on (extent or access)
• spring back; spring away from an impact
• (of a quantifier) be applied to (a given variable) so that the variable falls within its scope. For example, in an expression of the form ‘For every x, if x is a dog, x is an animal’, the universal quantifier is binding the variable x.
• jump suddenly
PREPOSITION:
• Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
• Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
• Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
• Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
• Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
• Constipated; costive.
NOUN:
• a problematical situation
• a nuisance
• a statutory constraint
• The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
• A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
• Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
• Spring from one foot to the other.
• a line determining the limits of an area
• the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
• the greatest possible degree of something
• a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
• sudden jump
ADJECTIVE:
• confined by bonds
• held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
• secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
• (usually followed by `to\') governed by fate
• covered or wrapped with a bandage
• headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students\'
• bound by an oath
• bound by contract
• confined in the bowels
• certain
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to tie or secure
• imp. & p. p. of Bind.

Words related to BOUND

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Words that contain BOUND

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How to use BOUND in a sentence

• If you are worried about anything, business or home affairs, it is bound to affect your game.
• I let myself fall backwards on purpose, and, with one bound, she leapt over me, and started to run.
• His horse gave a bound as the thing dropped into the road beside it.
• Only officers of high rank knew where they were bound.
• Yet more clearly than ever I see how these two are bound by the power of a simple fact.
• This, as it shrunk in drying, bound the different parts of the implement together in the strongest possible manner.
• He had torn down the buckskin curtain at his window and bound it about his body in the fashion of earlier ages.
• When the camp was made, he forced the captive to lie on the ground, stretched each arm at full length, and bound it to a young tree, and fastened his legs in the same manner.
• And yet they were bound for life in the tenderest and strongest ties that can hold the human soul and body.
• He had no power to enforce his plea, and they retain their privileges, taking no oath of allegiance, nor submitting to be bound by any positive engagement.
• But on the first night of the journey, before even reaching the place of her retirement, the bonds that bound her to earth were broken by the vehemence of her loving sorrow.
• All the same, I am bound to say that the Roman Catholic priests, when I was young, were much superior to those of to-day.
• Under these circumstances, they bound themselves together by Articles of Confederation.
• I was bound in conscience and in common-sense to make you the only proposition which could save you from ruin.
• The prevention of this evil, therefore, was an object which a reformed house of commons was especially bound to secure.
• It is with that view that he is sending enclosed a cheque to the value of L19 for which kindly send him leather bound copies exactly like the specimen you sent.
• A mass of good material on the great writers of the Victorian age is buried in the bound volumes of English and American reviews and magazines.
• By all laws written and unwritten she was bound over to silence.
• We must give up our whole lives to you, you are only bound to give us a few moments of yours.
• Then he took his belt, bound Sarvik firmly, and dragged him to the iron chamber, where he bound him hand and foot with chains.
• If all went well, Madame de Chevreuse was to receive a prayer-book bound in green, but a red binding was to indicate disaster.
• Our force seldom much exceeded four hundred men, and even if we had found the multitudes he speaks of bound hand and foot, we had not been able to put so many to death.
• The human mind cannot go on for ever accumulating facts which remain unconnected and without any mutual bearing and bound together by no law.
• Moreover, in common gratitude, I was bound to treat my neighbours and the workmen sent to look for me, and the treat cost me five gallons of whiskey.
• Dastick, for the first and only time in my remembrance, appeared with his trousers bound with straps to the bottoms of his boots.

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