Bind can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| bind - make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope; "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women" | ||
| bind - create social or emotional ties; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" | ||
| bind - provide with a binding; "bind the books in leather" | ||
| bind - form a chemical bond with; "The hydrogen binds the oxygen" | ||
| bind - wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | ||
| bind - fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord; "They tied their victim to the chair" | ||
| bind - stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?" | ||
| bind - bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise" | ||
| bind - secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed" | ||
| bind - cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you" | ||
Noun |
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| bind - something that hinders as if with bonds |
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| 1. | verb | The Chinese would bind the feet of their women. | |
| 2. | verb | Bind the books in leather. | |
| 3. | verb | You must bind yourself to keep your promise. | |
| 4. | verb | We need to bind gravel with cement. | |
| 5. | verb | Help me bind the papers into bundles. | |
| 6. | verb | You must bind yourself to keep the promise. | |
| 7. | verb | It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness. | |
| 8. | verb | He knows how to bind books. | |
| 9. | verb | Their job is to bind books. | |
| 10. | verb | Do you bind books? | |
| 11. | verb | There's a much darker and more cynical view of history that we can adopt. Human beings are too often motivated by greed and by power. Big countries for most of history have pushed smaller ones around. Tribes and ethnic groups and nation states have very often found it most convenient to define themselves by what they hate and not just those ideas that bind them together. | |
| 12. | verb | When the Methymnaeans found themselves thus deprived of their barque, and of all the property which it contained, they inquired for the goatherd, and finding him to be Daphnis, they began to strip him and beat him. One of them even took a dog-leash, and bending Daphnis's arms behind his back, prepared to bind him. | |
| 13. | verb | My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied. | |
| 14. | verb | Then, as with arms he comes to aid, they bind / in giant grasp the father. Twice, behold, / around his waist the horrid volumes wind, / twice round his neck their scaly backs are rolled, / high over all their heads and glittering crests unfold. | |
| 15. | verb | I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. | |
| 16. | noun | I'm forever lost, can't you see? I'm in a bind! | |
| 17. | noun | I am in a bind as my money has been stolen. | |
| 18. | noun | I'm really in a bind. |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| The Chinese would bind the feet of their women. |
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| Bind the books in leather. |
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| You must bind yourself to keep your promise. | |
| We need to bind gravel with cement. | |
| Help me bind the papers into bundles. | |
| You must bind yourself to keep the promise. | |
| It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness. | |
| He knows how to bind books. | |
| Their job is to bind books. | |
| Do you bind books? | |
| There's a much darker and more cynical view of history that we can adopt. Human beings are too often motivated by greed and by power. Big countries for most of history have pushed smaller ones around. Tribes and ethnic groups and nation states have very often found it most convenient to define themselves by what they hate and not just those ideas that bind them together. | |
| When the Methymnaeans found themselves thus deprived of their barque, and of all the property which it contained, they inquired for the goatherd, and finding him to be Daphnis, they began to strip him and beat him. One of them even took a dog-leash, and bending Daphnis's arms behind his back, prepared to bind him. | |
| My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied. | |
| Then, as with arms he comes to aid, they bind / in giant grasp the father. Twice, behold, / around his waist the horrid volumes wind, / twice round his neck their scaly backs are rolled, / high over all their heads and glittering crests unfold. | |
| I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. | |
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| I'm forever lost, can't you see? I'm in a bind! | |
| I am in a bind as my money has been stolen. | |
| I'm really in a bind. | |