1. Remain stuck to; keep in place
   "Will this wallpaper bind to the wall?";
   - adhere, hold fast, bond, stick, stick to
    
2. Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope
   "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"
    
3. Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
   "They bound their victim to the chair";
   - tie
    
4. Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose
   "The nurse bound the patient's wound";
   - bandage
    
5. Secure with (or as if with) ropes in order to prevent movement or escape
   "bind the prisoners";
   - tie down, tie up, truss
    
6. Create social or emotional ties
   "The shared experience bound the survivors together";
   - tie, attach, bond
    
7. Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
   "He's bound by a contract";
   - oblige, hold, obligate
    
8. Provide with a binding
   "bind the books in leather"
    
9. (chemistry) form a chemical bond with
   "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
    
10. Cause to be constipated
    "These foods tend to bind you";
    - constipate
     
11. (computing) associate an identifier with a value or object
    "The programmer bound the variable to a specific memory address"

1. Something that hinders as if with bonds
   "The contract's terms put the company in a bind"

Derived forms: binding, binds, bound

Type of: attach, balk, baulk [Brit], check, confine, constrain, cover, deterrent, fasten, fix, handicap, hinderance [rare], hindrance, hold, impediment, indispose, relate, restrain, secure

Antonym: unbind, unlace

Encyclopedia: Bind, Torture, Kill