bound
US /baʊnd/
・UK /baʊnd/
A2
verb
- To cover a wound, as with a bandage
- To put pages and a cover together to create a book
- To be limited by a law, agreement, or contract
- To join people who share something into a group
- To wrap something with rope
- To jump energetically
- To form the physical limit where one area ends
- To walk, run with long steps in an excited way
adjecitve
- (Papers) being kept together or covered
- Limited by a law, agreement, or contract
- Forced to do something (through honor, duty, etc.)
- Being closely connected to one or more people
noun
- Held someone by contract or promise or law
Examples
A person's name and their sense of their own identity are often closely bound up together.
The president said the country could not be held bound by a treaty signed by the previous regime.