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(adjective) confined by bonds; "bound and gagged hostages" |
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Antonyms: unbound |
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(adjective) secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form; "bound volumes"; "leather-bound volumes" |
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Antonyms: unbound |
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(satellite adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate; "bound to happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is destined to be famous" |
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Synonyms: destined |
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(satellite adjective) confined in the bowels; "he is bound in the belly" |
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(adjective) (chemistry and physics) held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union |
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Antonyms: free |
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(satellite adjective) being under moral or legal obligation; "felt bound by his promise" |
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Synonyms: compelled, constrained, obligate |
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(satellite adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New York"; often used as a combining form; "school-bound children"; "college-bound high school students" |
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Synonyms: destined |
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(verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to |
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Synonyms: border |
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Related Words: confine, enclose, hold in, shore, skirt, verge |
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(satellite adjective) bound by an oath; "a bound official" |
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(satellite adjective) covered or wrapped with a bandage; "the bandaged wound on the back of his head"; "an injury bound in fresh gauze" |
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Synonyms: bandaged |
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(noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something |
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Synonyms: boundary, bounds |
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Related Words: Rubicon, border, borderline, boundary line, bourn, bourne, city line, county line, delimitation, demarcation, demarcation line, district line, edge, end, extremity, hairline, heliopause, limit, outline, shoreline, surface |
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(satellite adjective) bound by contract |
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Synonyms: apprenticed, articled, indentured |
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(verb) move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" |
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Synonyms: jump, leap, spring |
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Related Words: bounce, bound, burst, caper, capriole, curvet, galumph, hop, hop-skip, leapfrog, move, overleap, pronk, rebound, recoil, ricochet, saltate, ski jump, skip, spring, take a hop, vault |
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(noun) a line determining the limits of an area |
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Synonyms: boundary, edge |
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Related Words: border, brink, fringe, frontier, line, lower bound, margin, outer boundary, perimeter, periphery, rim, thalweg, threshold, upper bound, verge |
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(noun) a light springing movement upwards or forwards |
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Synonyms: bounce, leap, leaping, spring |
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Related Words: jump, jumping, pounce |
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(verb) spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced" |
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Synonyms: bounce, rebound, recoil, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
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Related Words: bound, bound off, carom, glance, jump, kick, kick back, leap, recoil, skip, spring |
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(verb) place limits on; "restrict the use of this parking lot" |
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Synonyms: confine, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel |
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Related Words: baffle, check, clamp down, constrain, contain, control, crack down, cramp, cumber, curb, draw a line, draw the line, encumber, gate, halter, hamper, harness, hold, hold in, inhibit, mark off, mark out, moderate, reduce, regulate, rein, restrain, rule, stiffen, tie, tighten, tighten up |
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