1. Push upwards with the legs and feet to move upwards (and maybe forwards) with feet clear of the ground
   "The horse bounded across the meadow";
   - jump, leap, spring
    
2. Form the boundary of; be contiguous to
   "The river bounds the property on the east";
   - border
    
3. Place limits on (extent, amount or access)
   "Regulations bound their authority";
   - restrict, trammel, limit, confine, throttle
    
4. Move back in a roughly opposite direction after an impact
   "The rubber ball bounded";
   - bounce, resile, spring, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet

1. Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in ‘college-bound students’
   "children bound for school";
   - destined
    
2. Confined by bonds
   "bound and gagged hostages"
    
3. (physics) held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
   "The bound atoms formed a stable molecule"
    
4. Secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
   "bound volumes"; "leather-bound volumes"
    
5. Bound by contract
   "The bound parties had to fulfil their obligations";
   - apprenticed, articled, indentured
    
6. Bound by an oath
   "a bound official"
    
7. (usually followed by ‘to’) governed by fate
   "bound to happen";
   - destined
    
8. Covered or wrapped with a bandage
   "an injury bound in fresh gauze";
   - bandaged
    
9. Confined in the bowels
   "he is bound in the belly"

1. A line determining the limits of an area
   "The river formed a natural bound between the two countries";
   - boundary, edge
    
2. The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
   "The property's bounds were marked by a wooden fence";
   - boundary, bounds
    
3. The greatest possible degree of something
   "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behaviour";
   - limit, boundary
    
4. A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
   "The dancer's graceful bound captivated the audience";
   - leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bounce

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"

Derived forms: bounded, bounding, bounds

See also: approach, brassbound, cased, certain, chained, conjugate, conjugated, constipated, enchained, fettered, furled, half-bound, in chains, jump, orientated [Brit], oriented, paperback, paperbacked [rare], paperbound [US], pinioned, rolled, shackled, sure, sworn, tethered, tied, treated, trussed, unfree, well-bound, wired

Type of: act, attach, confine, constrain, cover, enclose, extent, extremity, fasten, fix, hold, hold in, indispose, jump, jumping, line, move, relate, restrain, secure

Antonym: free, unbind, unbound, unlace

Encyclopedia: Bound, Matthew