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1. Stick to firmly
   - adhere, hold fast, bond, stick, stick to
    
2. Create social or emotional ties
   - tie, attach, bond
    
3. Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope
   "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"
    
4. Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose
   - bandage
    
5. Secure with or as if with ropes
   - tie down, tie up, truss
    
6. Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
   - oblige, hold, obligate
    
7. Provide with a binding
   "bind the books in leather"
    
8. Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
   - tie
    
9. Form a chemical bond with
   "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
    
10. Cause to be constipated
    - constipate

1. Something that hinders as if with bonds

Derived forms: binds, bound, binding

See also: bindable, binder, bindery, binding

Type of: attach, balk, baulk [Brit], check, confine, cover, deterrent, fasten, fix, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, hold, impediment, indispose, relate, restrain, secure

Antonym: unbind

Encyclopedia: Bind Bind, Torture, Kill