bind
束缚,捆绑,绑定,结合
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Definitions
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bound, bind·ing.
- : to fasten or secure with a band or bond.
- : to encircle with a band or ligature: She bound her hair with a ribbon.
- : to swathe or bandage: to bind up one's wounds.
- : to fasten around; fix in place by girding: They bound his hands behind him.
- : to tie up.
- : to cause to cohere: Ice bound the soil.
- : to unite by any legal or moral tie: to be bound by a contract.
- : to hold to a particular state, place, employment, etc.: Business kept him bound to the city.
- : to place under obligation or compulsion: We are bound by good sense to obey the country's laws.
- : Law. to put under legal obligation, as to keep the peace or appear as a witness: This action binds them to keep the peace. He was bound over to the grand jury.
- : to make compulsory or obligatory: to bind the order with a deposit.
- : to fasten or secure within a cover, as a book: They will bind the new book in leather.
Phrases
- bind hand and foot
- bind over
- in a bind
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
This New York Times story suggests that the double bind has a sibling—I’ll call it the motherhood bind.
The Broadsheet has spent plenty of time covering the “double bind” that women face in the workplace.
That’s the chicken-and-egg situation that has left indoor farms in a bind the world over until now, Teng points out.
To accomplish this next stage of capitalism, we must shake ourselves from the binds of a false narrative, the one that pits the interests of stakeholders against the interests of shareholders.
Many students are taking Mitsch’s advice, and that’s putting colleges in a bind.
By announcing this meeting with such feel-good publicity, they are placing their successors in quite a bind.
On Escobar's order, Popeye took Mendoza hostage in the warden's house while Escobar tried to figure his way out of the bind.
Its molecules bind to messenger RNA, allowing certain genes to be “turned off.”
This has put Ukrainian gay activists and their allies in a bind.
Finally, Mandela understood the ties that bind the human spirit.
They have a living faith in the potency of the Horse-Guards, and in the maxim that "Safe bind is sure find."
He had, however, torn the leg of one of his stockings: so he asked Amy to up his wounds.