intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To tie or secure, as with a rope or cord.

intransitive verb. To hold or restrain by tying with rope or bonds:

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intransitive verb. To fasten or wrap by encircling, as with a belt or ribbon.

intransitive verb. To bandage.

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intransitive verb. To compel, constrain, or unite.

intransitive verb. To make certain or irrevocable.

intransitive verb. To place under legal obligation.

intransitive verb. To apprentice or indenture.

intransitive verb. To combine with, form a chemical bond with, or be taken up by, as an enzyme with its substrate.

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intransitive verb. To cause to cohere or stick together in a mass.

intransitive verb. To constipate.

intransitive verb. To enclose and fasten (the pages of a book or other printed material) between covers.

intransitive verb. To furnish with an edge or border for protection, reinforcement, or ornamentation.

intransitive verb. To tie up or fasten something.

intransitive verb. To stick or become stuck.

intransitive verb. To be uncomfortably tight or restricting, as clothes.

intransitive verb. To become compact or solid; cohere.

intransitive verb. To be compelling, constraining, or unifying.

intransitive verb. To combine chemically or form a chemical bond.

noun. undefined

noun. The act of binding.

noun. The state of being bound.

noun. Something that binds.

noun. A place where something binds.

noun. A difficult, restrictive, or unresolvable situation.

noun. A tie, slur, or brace.

phrasal verb. To cast off in knitting.

phrasal verb. To hold under legal obligation, as to bind over a party accused of crime to appear before a grand jury or in a particular court.

To make fast (to, on, or upon) with a band or bond of any kind.

To unite by any legal or moral tie; attach by considerations of love, duty, interest, obligation, etc.: as, bound in the bonds of matrimony; bound by gratitude, duty, debt, etc.

To put in bonds or fetters; deprive of liberty or of the use of the limbs by making fast physically.

To restrain; hold to a particular state, place, employment, etc.

To hinder or restrain (the bowels) from their natural operations; make costive; constipate.

To fasten around anything; fix in place by girding or tying: as, to bind a cord round the arm.

To encircle with a band or ligature; gird; confine or restrain by girding: as, “bind up those tresses,”

To swathe or bandage; cover and swathe with dressings: with up.

To form a border or edge on, for the purpose of strengthening or ornamenting; edge: as, to bind a wheel with a tire; to bind a garment or a carpet.

To tie or fasten (loose things) together with a band, cord, or tie; tie up into one bundle or mass: as, to bind sheaves of grain.

To fasten or secure within a cover, as a book or pamphlet. See bookbinding.

In fencing, to secure (the sword of an adversary). See binding, n., 3.

To cause to cohere; cement; knit; unite firmly: as, to bind the loose sand.

To place under obligation or compulsion: as, all are bound to obey the laws.

To put under legal obligation: often with over: as, to bind a man over to keep the peace.

Specifically To indenture as an apprentice: often with out.

To cohere; stick together.

To become indurated, hard, or stiff: as, clay binds by heat.

"The issue where they might be able to pass some legislation that would really put the Republicans in a bind is the middle class tax cuts."

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