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1. Confined by bonds
   "bound and gagged hostages"
    
2. Held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
    
3. Secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
   "bound volumes"; "leather-bound volumes"
    
4. (usually followed by 'to') governed by fate
   "bound to happen"
   - destined
    
5. Covered or wrapped with a bandage
   "an injury bound in fresh gauze"
   - bandaged
    
6. Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in 'college-bound students'
   "children bound for school"
   - destined
    
7. Bound by an oath
   "a bound official"
    
8. Bound by contract
   - apprenticed, articled, indentured
    
9. Confined in the bowels
   "he is bound in the belly"

1. Move forward by leaps and bounds
   "The horse bounded across the meadow"
   - jump, leap, spring
    
2. Form the boundary of; be contiguous to
   - border
    
3. Place limits on (extent or access)
   - restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, confine, throttle
    
4. Spring back; spring away from an impact
   - bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet

1. A line determining the limits of an area
   - boundary, edge
    
2. The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
   - boundary, bounds
    
3. The greatest possible degree of something
   "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behaviour"
   - limit, boundary
    
4. A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
   - leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bounce

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

Derived forms: bounds, bounding, bounded

See also: bindable, binder, bindery, binding, bounder, brassbound, cased, certain, chained, conjugate, conjugated, constipated, enchained, fettered, furled, half-bound, orientated, oriented, paperback, paperbacked, paperbound [US], pinioned, rolled, shackled, sure, sworn, tethered, tied, treated, trussed, unfree, well-bound, wired

Type of: attach, check, confine, contain, control, cover, curb, enclose, extent, extremity, fasten, fix, hold, hold in, indispose, jump, jumping, line, moderate, move, relate, restrain, secure

Antonym: free, unbind, unbound

Encyclopedia: Bind Bind, Torture, Kill