Bound
verbAdjective
covered or wrapped with a bandage
“an injury bound in fresh gauze”
Similar:Bandaged(usually followed by `to') governed by fate
“bound to happen”
Similar:Destinedheaded or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'
“children bound for school”
Similar:Destinedconfined by bonds
“bound and gagged hostages”
See also:Unfreesecured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
“bound volumes”
“leather-bound volumes”
bound by an oath
“a bound official”
confined in the bowels
“he is bound in the belly”
bound by contract
held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
Noun
the greatest possible degree of something
“what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior”
a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
a line determining the limits of an area
the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
Type of:Extremity
Verb
move forward by leaps and bounds
“The horse bounded across the meadow”
form the boundary of; be contiguous to
spring back; spring away from an impact
place limits on (extent or amount or access)
Dictionary Validity
- Tournament Word List (TWL)
- Scrabble US
- Collins Scrabble Words (CSW21)
- Scrabble UK
- ENABLE Dictionary
- Words With Friends
- Combined US/UK Scrabble Dictionary
- SOWPODS
- North American Scrabble (NWL2020)
- NASPA
Similar Words
- Border
- Apprenticed
- Articled
- Indentured
- Bounce
- Leap
- Leaping
- Saltation
- Spring
- Rebound
- Recoil
- Resile
- Reverberate
- Ricochet
- Bandaged