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Bind   /baɪnd/   Listen
Bind

verb
(past bound; past part. bound, formerly bounden; pres. part. binding)
1.
Stick to firmly.  Synonyms: adhere, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to.
2.
Create social or emotional ties.  Synonyms: attach, bond, tie.
3.
Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope.
4.
Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose.  Synonym: bandage.
5.
Secure with or as if with ropes.  Synonyms: tie down, tie up, truss.  "Tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"
6.
Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted.  Synonyms: hold, obligate, oblige.  "I'll hold you by your promise"
7.
Provide with a binding.
8.
Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.  Synonym: tie.
9.
Form a chemical bond with.
10.
Cause to be constipated.  Synonym: constipate.
noun
1.
Something that hinders as if with bonds.



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"Bind" Quotes from Famous Books



... one little portion of her beauty, in the curve of an eyelash even, or the modelling of a shell-like ear, is justified to hold a light before my loveliness? Now, my waist! Perchance thou thinkest it too large, but of a truth it is not so; it is this golden snake that is too large, and doth not bind it as it should. It is a wide snake, and knoweth that it is ill to tie in the waist. But see, give me thy hands—so—now press them round me, and there, with but a little force, thy fingers ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard

... been anything but a faithful servant to the Derbys, and made a brave end. The place of his execution was Hango Hill, a bleak, bare stretch of land with the broad sea Under it. The soldiers wished to bind Christian. "Trouble not yourselves for me," he said, "for I that dare face death in whatever shape he comes, will not start at your fire and bullets." He pinned a piece of white paper on his breast, and said: "Hit this, and you do your own work and mine." Then he stretched ...
— The Little Manx Nation - 1891 • Hall Caine

... September gales, Of pirates upon the Spanish Main, And ships that never came back again, The chance and change of a sailor's life, Want and plenty, rest and strife, His roving fancy, like the wind, That nothing can stay and nothing can bind, And the magic charm of foreign lands, With shadows of palms, and shining sands, Where the tumbling surf, O'er the coral reefs of Madagascar, Washes the feet of the swarthy Lascar, As he lies alone and asleep on the turf. And the trembling maiden held her breath At the tales of that awful, pitiless ...
— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck

... with a smoldering fire. "Johnstone Sahib will not leave Delhi. It is in the stars! He has too much here to leave. There are many old ties which bind. No, he will not go like a thief in the night." Hawke was surprised at the ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage

... probable place of refuge, had sent soldiers in haste to bring him back to Rome, there to suffer the punishment decreed. In a minute afterwards a centurion entered the room, and, seeing Nero prostrate and bleeding, ran to his aid, saying that he would bind the ...
— Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris


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