bind
束缚,捆绑,绑定,结合
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Definitions
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bound, bind·ing.
- : to fasten or secure with a band or bond.
- : to encircle with a band or ligature: She bound her hair with a ribbon.
- : to swathe or bandage: to bind up one's wounds.
- : to fasten around; fix in place by girding: They bound his hands behind him.
- : to tie up.
- : to cause to cohere: Ice bound the soil.
- : to unite by any legal or moral tie: to be bound by a contract.
- : to hold to a particular state, place, employment, etc.: Business kept him bound to the city.
- : to place under obligation or compulsion: We are bound by good sense to obey the country's laws.
- : Law. to put under legal obligation, as to keep the peace or appear as a witness: This action binds them to keep the peace. He was bound over to the grand jury.
- : to make compulsory or obligatory: to bind the order with a deposit.
- : to fasten or secure within a cover, as a book: They will bind the new book in leather.
- : to cover the edge of, as for protection or ornament: to bind a carpet.
- : to chafe or restrict: This shirt binds me under the arms.
- : Medicine/Medical. to hinder or restrain from their natural operations; constipate.
- : to indenture as an apprentice: In his youth his father bound him to a blacksmith.
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bound, bind·ing.
- : to become compact or solid; cohere.
- : to be obligatory: an obligation that binds.
- : to chafe or restrict, as poorly fitting garments: This jacket binds through the shoulders.
- : to stick fast, as a drill in a hole.
- : Falconry. to grapple or grasp prey firmly in flight.
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- : the act or process of binding; the state or instance of being bound.
- : something that binds.
- : Music. a tie, slur, or brace.
- : Falconry. the act of binding prey in flight.
- : Informal. a difficult situation or predicament: This schedule has us in a bind.
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- : bind off, Textiles. to loop over another in making an edge on knitted fabric.
Phrases
- bind hand and foot
- bind over
- in a bind
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
This New York Times story suggests that the double bind has a sibling—I’ll call it the motherhood bind.
The Broadsheet has spent plenty of time covering the “double bind” that women face in the workplace.
That’s the chicken-and-egg situation that has left indoor farms in a bind the world over until now, Teng points out.
To accomplish this next stage of capitalism, we must shake ourselves from the binds of a false narrative, the one that pits the interests of stakeholders against the interests of shareholders.
Many students are taking Mitsch’s advice, and that’s putting colleges in a bind.
By announcing this meeting with such feel-good publicity, they are placing their successors in quite a bind.
On Escobar's order, Popeye took Mendoza hostage in the warden's house while Escobar tried to figure his way out of the bind.
Its molecules bind to messenger RNA, allowing certain genes to be “turned off.”
This has put Ukrainian gay activists and their allies in a bind.
Finally, Mandela understood the ties that bind the human spirit.
They have a living faith in the potency of the Horse-Guards, and in the maxim that "Safe bind is sure find."
He had, however, torn the leg of one of his stockings: so he asked Amy to bind up his wounds.
Oaths taken in courts of judicature, civil or religious, and the marriage oath, bind the parties in like manner.
In one word, to the whole worship of God the soul that clings to His Covenant will cordially bind itself in his dread presence.
There is none to judge thy judgment to bind it up: thou hast no healing medicines.