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.