Bind Definition

bīnd
binding, binds, bound
verb
binding, binds, bound
To tie or secure, as with a rope or cord.
American Heritage
To tie together; make fast or tight, as with a rope or band.
Webster's New World
To do the act of binding.
Webster's New World
To hold or restrain by tying with rope or bonds.
Bound the prisoner.
American Heritage
To hold or restrain as if tied or tied down.
Bound by convention.
Webster's New World
noun
binds
The act of binding.
American Heritage
Anything that binds.
Webster's New World
The state of being bound.
American Heritage
A difficult or restrictive situation; jam.
To be in a bind.
Webster's New World
Something that binds.
American Heritage
Antonyms:
idiom
bind over
  • to put under legal bond to appear at a specified time and place, as before a law court
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Bind

Noun

Singular:
bind
Plural:
binds

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Bind

Origin of Bind

  • From Middle English binden, from Old English bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną (compare West Frisian bine, Dutch binden, Low German binnen, German binden, Danish binde), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”) (compare Welsh benn (“cart”), Latin offendīx (“knot, band”), Lithuanian beñdras (“partner”), Albanian bend (“servant,henchman”), bind (“to convince, persuade, tame”), Ancient Greek πεῖσμα (peisma, “cable, rope”), Sanskrit बध्नाति (badhnāti)).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English binden from Old English bindan bhendh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the above verb.

    From Wiktionary

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