Crossword-Solution: BOUND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bound | imp. | of Bind |
| Bound | p. p. | of Bind |
| Bound | n. | 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. |
| Bound | v. t. | 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. |
| Bound | v. t. | To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France. |
| Bound | v. i. | 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. |
| Bound | v. i. | To rebound, as an elastic ball. |
| Bound | v. t. | To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse. |
| Bound | v. t. | To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor. |
| Bound | n. | A leap; an elastic spring; a jump. |
| Bound | n. | Rebound; as, the bound of a ball. |
| Bound | n. | Spring from one foot to the other. |
| Bound | - | imp. & p. p. of Bind. |
| Bound | p. p. & a. | Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like. |
| Bound | p. p. & a. | Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume. |
| Bound | p. p. & a. | Under legal or moral restraint or obligation. |
| Bound | p. p. & a. | Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail. |
| Bound | p. p. & a. | Resolved; as, I am bound to do it. |
| Bound | p. p. & a. | Constipated; costive. |
| Bound | v. | 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. |
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Sentences with BOUND (5)
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
Wendy bound, and on the pirate ship; she who loved everything to be just so! “I’ll rescue her!” he cried, leaping at his weapons.
Then once more Cheemaun he patted, To his birch-canoe said, “Onward!” And it stirred in all its fibres, And with one great bound of triumph Leaped across the water-lilies, Leaped through tangled flags and rushes, And upon the beach beyond them Dry-shod landed Hiawatha.
Before thir eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoarie deep, a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And _Chaos_, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal _Anarchie_, amidst the noise Of endless warrs and by confusion stand.
Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion.
Quotes with BOUND (3)
Love. Because of you, in gardens of blossoming Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring. I have forgotten your face, I no longer Remember your hands; how did your lips Feel on mine? Because of you, I love the white statues Drowsing in the parks, the white statues that Have neither voice nor sight. I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice; I have forgotten your eyes. Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to My vague memory of you. I live with pain That is like a woun…
Caliph Vathek and his dark horde Are bound for Hell, you won’t be bored! Your faith in me will be restored — Unless this token you find untoward And my poor gift you have ignored.
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 60 times in crossword archives (1971–2024).