English to English noun
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something that hinders as if with bonds | source: wordnet30
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That which binds or ties. | source: webster1913 verb Example:
• Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?
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4 |
create social or emotional ties | Example:
• The grandparents want to bond with the child
source: wordnet30
5 |
make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope | Example:
• The Chinese would bind the feet of their women
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6 |
wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | source: wordnet30
7 |
secure with or as if with ropes | Example:
• tie down the prisoners • tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed
source: wordnet30
8 |
bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Example:
• He's held by a contract • I'll hold you by your promise
source: wordnet30 Example:
• bind the books in leather
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10 |
fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord | Example:
• They tied their victim to the chair
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11 |
form a chemical bond with | Example:
• The hydrogen binds the oxygen
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12 |
cause to be constipated | Example:
• These foods tend to constipate you
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13 |
To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner. | source: webster1913
14 |
To tie; to confine by any ligature. | source: webster1913
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