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The synonyms of “Bind” are: adhere, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to, attach, tie, constipate, hold, obligate, oblige, bandage, tie down, tie up, truss, fasten, fasten together, hold together, secure, make fast, wrap, envelop, swaddle, bundle up, muffle up, cover, cloak, shroud, drape, wind, enfold, bedeck, overlay, encase, sheathe, dress, swathe, cohere, unite, join, knit together, draw together, yoke together, constrain, restrict, confine, restrain, tie hand and foot, shackle, commit oneself, undertake, give an undertaking, pledge, trim, hem, edge, border, fringe, rim, band, predicament, quandary, dilemma, plight, cleft stick, mess, quagmire, nuisance, annoyance, inconvenience, bore, bother, source of irritation, irritant, problem, trial
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “bind” as a noun can have the following definitions:
annoyance | The act of troubling or annoying someone. Some people like to irritate us with trivial annoyances. |
bore | The diameter of a bore the calibre. A small bore rifle. |
bother | Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness. A spot of bother. |
cleft stick | A split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin. |
dilemma | State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options. The insoluble dilemma of adolescence. |
inconvenience | The quality of not being useful or convenient. The inconvenience of having to change trains. |
irritant | A thing that is continually annoying or distracting. In 1966 Vietnam was becoming an irritant to the government. |
mess | A meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel. I look a mess. |
nuisance | A bothersome annoying person. It s a nuisance having all those people clomping through the house. |
plight | A dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation. The woeful plight of homeless people. |
predicament | A difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation. The club s financial predicament. |
problem | A proposition in which something has to be constructed. Motivation of staff can also be a problem. |
quagmire | A soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot. Torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire. |
quandary | State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options. Kate was in a quandary. |
source of irritation | Someone who originates or causes or initiates something. |
trial | A formal examination of evidence by a judge, typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings. The trials and tribulations of married life. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “bind” as a verb can have the following definitions:
adhere | Follow through or carry out a plan without deviation. You must adhere to the rules. |
attach | Become attached. They were all too ready to attach themselves to you for the whole day. |
band | Put a band on a bird for identification. The infants are banded in terms of their ability. |
bandage | Bind (a wound or a part of the body) with a protective strip of material. Bandage the foot so that the ankle is supported. |
bedeck | Decorate. He led us into a room bedecked with tinsel. |
bond | Place dutiable goods in bond. Assets may have to be sold or bonded to provide cash for the payment of this tax. |
border | Provide with a border or edge. A pool bordered by palm trees. |
bundle up | Sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one’s betrothed. |
cloak | Cover with or as if with a cloak. They sat cloaked and hooded. |
cohere | Form a unified whole. The sushi rice grains cohere. |
commit oneself | Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause. |
confine | Deprive of freedom take into confinement. The troops were confined to their barracks. |
constipate | Cause to be constipated. These foods tend to constipate you. |
constrain | Compel to behave in a certain way. The walls are high the gates are strong but true love never yet was thus constrained. |
cover | Cover as if with a shroud. This should cover everyone in the group. |
drape | Cover as if with clothing. She draped a shawl around her shoulders. |
draw together | Contract. |
dress | Clean treat or apply a dressing to a wound. Dress the tanned skins. |
edge | Provide with an edge. The pool is edged with paving. |
encase | Enclose or cover in a case or close-fitting surround. Each was encased in a plastic shrink wrap. |
enfold | Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering. He enfolded her in his arms and stroked her hair. |
envelop | Wrap up, cover, or surround completely. A figure enveloped in a black cloak. |
fasten | Become fixed or fastened. The critics fastened upon two sections of the report. |
fasten together | Cause to be firmly attached. |
fringe | Decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe. Fur fringed the hem of the dress. |
give an undertaking | Allow to have or take. |
hem | Utter hem or ahem. He was hemmed in by the tables. |
hold | Have room for hold without crowding. Hold your tongue. |
hold fast | Assert or affirm. |
hold together | Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted. |
join | Cause to become joined or linked. He joined the Communist Party as a young man. |
knit together | Make (textiles) by knitting. |
make fast | Eliminate urine. |
muffle up | Conceal or hide. |
obligate | Require or compel (someone) to undertake a legal or moral duty. The money must be obligated within 30 days. |
oblige | Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted. We had to oblige him. |
overlay | Kill by lying on. The sow overlay her piglets. |
pledge | Bind or secure by a pledge. Japan pledged 100 million in humanitarian aid. |
restrain | To compel or deter by or as if by threats. All front seats must be equipped with seat belts which restrain the upper part of the body. |
restrict | Place restrictions on. That area is restricted to security personnel only. |
rim | Run around the rim of. Rim a hat. |
secure | Protect against threats; make safe. A loan secured on your home. |
shackle | Chain with shackles. The prisoner was shackled to the heavy steel chair in the centre of the room. |
sheathe | Encase (something) in a close-fitting or protective covering. Sheathe her face. |
shroud | Form a cover like a shroud. Mist shrouded the castle. |
stick | Stick to firmly. Stick the poster onto the wall. |
stick to | Stick to firmly. |
swaddle | Wrap in swaddling clothes. She swaddled the baby tightly. |
swathe | Wrap in swaddling clothes. |
tie | Create social or emotional ties. Renwick bent to tie his shoelace. |
tie down | Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc. |
tie hand and foot | Unite musical notes by a tie. |
tie up | Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc. |
trim | Adjust the balance of a ship or aircraft by rearranging its cargo or by means of its trim tabs. Trim the grass using a sharp mower. |
truss | Support a roof bridge or other structure with a truss or trusses. Alfred had already trussed and stuffed the geese. |
undertake | Accept as a charge. A lorry driver implicitly undertakes that he is reasonably skilled as a driver. |
unite | Be or become joined or united or linked. She unites charm with a good business sense. |
wind | Make a baby bring up wind after feeding by patting its back. The birds could not have seen us or winded us. |
wrap | Arrange or fold as a cover or protection. The teenager wrapped his car around the fire hydrant. |
yoke together | Become joined or linked together. |
belay | An act of belaying. The leader may require belays to tackle more difficult sections. |
bond | Issue bonds on. English bond. |
buckle | Fasten with a buckle or buckles. Most rucksacks have quick release buckles. |
concatenation | A series of things depending on each other as if linked together. The concatenation of lists. |
cravat | A short, wide strip of fabric worn by men round the neck and tucked inside an open-necked shirt. |
entwine | Spin, wind, or twist together. The nations histories were closely entwined. |
fasten | Become fixed or fastened. The critics fastened upon two sections of the report. |
hold | Contain or hold have within. She holds a Master s degree from Harvard. |
interlace | Mingle or intersperse something with. Jane interlaced her fingers to form a cup. |
intertwine | Make a loop in. A net made of cotton intertwined with other natural fibres. |
knot | Fasten with a knot. She knotted her fingers. |
lace | Pass a lace or cord through a hole. The script is laced with expletives. |
lariat | A long noosed rope used to catch animals. |
ligature | Bind or connect with a ligature. He ligatured the duodenum below the pylorus. |
link | Create a hyperlink between web pages or hypertext documents. The walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction. |
loop | Put into or execute a loop of tape film or computing instructions. Loop a rope. |
loosely | In a loose manner. You shouldn t speak loosely outside the group. |
nexus | The means of connection between things linked in series. The nexus of any government in this country is No 10. |
ravel | Untangle or unravel something. Can you unravel the mystery. |
rope | Catch fasten or secure with rope. There was no way down even with a rope. |
splice | A junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together. Splice genes. |
string | Provide with strings. The child drew glass beads on a string. |
strung | That is on a string. |
tangle | A twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven. A tangle of golden hair. |
tie | A shoe tied with a lace. His hand went up to his collar and started to loosen his tie. |
tied | (of a pub) owned by a brewery and bound to supply the products produced or specified by that brewery. People tied by blood or marriage. |
truss | Support a roof bridge or other structure with a truss or trusses. He was trussed up in a heavily padded suit complete with face mask and protective gloves. |
twine | Strong thread or string consisting of two or more strands of hemp or cotton twisted together. Intertwined hearts. |
tying | The act of tying or binding things together. |
undergird | Lend moral support to. That s a philosophy that needs to undergird retailers business plans this year. |
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