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Bound up   /baʊnd əp/   Listen
Bound up

adjective
1.
Closely or inseparably connected or associated with.
2.
Deeply devoted to.  Synonym: wrapped up.  "Is wrapped up in his family"






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"Bound up" Quotes from Famous Books



... knowledge had passed far down the State. 'Price one-dollar-fifty per each. A gem of purest razorene. A rhymed compendium of wit, information, and highly moral so-forths. Ten thousand verses, printed on a new style rotating duplex press, and bound up in pale-gray calico. Let me quote you that sweet couplet about ...
— Kilo - Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt Book Agent • Ellis Parker Butler

... house and its tree were vivid and very still. They stood back in an atmosphere of their own, an atmosphere of perfect but utterly unreal peace. And as long as our memories endure, that house which we never saw before, and shall probably never see again, is bound up with the fate of Mrs. Torrence ...
— A Journal of Impressions in Belgium • May Sinclair

... this letter I shall be far away from you, and shall perhaps never see you again. My destiny is bound up with that of a man for whom I have sacrificed everything; he can not live without me, and I am going to try to die for him. I love ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... Mr. Fox bound up the whole of his politics during the session. This motion had many circumstances, particularly in the Norwich correspondence, by which the mischief of all the others was aggravated beyond measure. Yet this last motion, far the worst of Mr. Fox's proceedings, was the best supported of any of ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... sigh. "That was a far heavier blow for them than the death of their daughter. He was their joy and pride, their hearts were bound up ...
— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour


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