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verb (past and past participle bound |bound| ) with object
1. tie or fasten (something) tightly:
〈人が〉 【ロープなどで】〈人･物〉を縛る, 束ねる(together, up) «with» ; «…に» …を縛りつける, くくりつける «to, on»
e.g. floating bundles of logs bound together with ropes
e.g. the magician bound her wrists with a silk scarf.
restrain (someone) by the tying up of hands and feet:
e.g. the raider then bound and gagged Mr. Glenn.
wrap (something) tightly:
【体の一部に】〈布など〉を巻く «around»
e.g. her hair was bound up in a towel.
bandage (a wound):
〈傷など〉に包帯を当てる(up)
e.g. he cleaned the wound and bound it up with a clean dressing
e.g. she had bound his wounds with a poultice of herbs.
(be bound with) (of an object) be encircled by something, typically metal bands, in order to strengthen it:
«…で» (補強･装飾のため)〈布･織物など〉に縁をつける «with» ; 〈編み物の目〉をかがる
e.g. an ancient oak chest bound with brass braces.
2. cohere or cause to cohere in a single mass:
〈物〉を固める, 凝固させる; 〘料〙 【つなぎで】〈材料〉を固める «with» ; 〖be bound〗〘化〙 〈物質が〉化合する(together)
e.g. with object : mix the flour with the coconut and enough egg white to bind them
〈料理の材料･コンクリートなどが〉しっかり固まる, 締まる
e.g. no object : clay is made up chiefly of tiny soil particles that bind together tightly.
cause (painting pigments) to form a smooth medium by mixing them with oil:
e.g. use a white that is bound in linseed oil.
hold by chemical bonding:
e.g. a protein in a form that can bind DNA.
no object (bind to) combine with (a substance) through chemical bonding:
〘化〙 〈物質が〉 «…に» 化合する «to, with»
e.g. these proteins have been reported to bind to calmodulin.
3. cause (people) to feel united:
〈物が〉(精神的･経済的に)〈人･国など〉を結びつける, 団結させる(together)
e.g. the comradeship that had bound such a disparate bunch of young men together.
(bind someone to) cause someone to feel strongly attached to (a person or place):
«…に» …を結びつける «to»
e.g. loosened the ties that had bound him to the university.
4. impose a legal or contractual obligation on:
〈規則などが〉〈人〉を束縛する(down); «…するよう» 〈人〉に義務を負わせる «to do»
e.g. a party who signs a document will normally be bound by its terms.
indenture (someone) as an apprentice:
«…に» 〈人〉を奉公に行かせる(out, over) «to» .
e.g. he was bound apprentice at the age of sixteen.
(bind oneself) formal make a contractual or enforceable undertaking:
e.g. the government cannot bind itself as to the form of subsequent legislation.
(be bound by) be hampered or constrained by:
e.g. Sarah did not want to be bound by a rigid timetable.
secure (a contract), typically with a sum of money.
5. fix together and enclose (the pages of a book) in a cover:
«…で» 〈本など〉をとじる, 装丁［製本］する «in»
e.g. a small, fat volume, bound in red morocco.
6. trim (the edge of a piece of material) with a decorative strip:
e.g. a ruffle with the edges bound in a contrasting color.
7. Logic (of a quantifier) be applied to (a given variable) so that the variable falls within its scope.
>For example, in an expression of the form ‘For every x, if x is a dog, x is an animal,’ the universal quantifier is binding the variable x.
8. Linguistics (of a rule or set of grammatical conditions) determine the relationship between (coreferential noun phrases).

noun
1. a problematical situation:
｟くだけて｠ 困った状況
e.g. he is in a political bind over the welfare issue.
2. formal a statutory constraint:
e.g. the moral bind of the law.
3. Music another term for tie.
〘楽〙 結合線
4. another term for bine.

PHRASES
bind someone hand and foot
see hand.

PHRASAL VERBS
bind off
North American cast off in knitting.

bind someone over
(usually be bound over) (of a court of law) require someone to fulfill an obligation, typically by paying a sum of money as surety:
e.g. he was bound over for trial on a felony charge.

ORIGIN
Old English bindan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German binden, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit bandh.