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Adjective: bounded  bawn-did
  1. Having the limits or boundaries established
    "a bounded frontier through the disputed region";
    - delimited
Verb: bound  bawnd
  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
    - border
     
  3. Place limits on (extent, amount or access)
    - restrict, trammel, limit, confine, throttle
     
  4. Move back in a roughly opposite direction after an impact
    "The rubber ball bounded";
    - bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet

See also: border on, finite, jump on

Type of: confine, enclose, hold in, move

Encyclopedia: Bounded

Bound, Matthew