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bound up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bound upadjective

    closely or inseparably connected or associated with

    "his career is bound up with the fortunes of the enterprise"

  2. bound up, wrapped upadjective

    deeply devoted to

    "bound up in her teaching"; "is wrapped up in his family"

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  1. bound up

    "Bound up" is an idiomatic phrase often used in English language where "bound" means tied or fastened firmly. When something is bound up, it is closely connected or inseparably linked with something else. In another context, it could also mean to be completely engrossed or absorbed in something. The term can also refer to a physical state where something is tightly fastened or wrapped.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bound up in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bound up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of bound up in a Sentence

  1. Deborah Powell:

    [On the screen] at the time there was a woman being slapped, naked, bound up… so, we had to have our children close their eyes, i could see another car behind us that had children in there with their eyes closed.

  2. Bertrand Russell:

    If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

  3. Edward Daniels:

    I am not going to speculate on that I'm afraid. That is very much bound up with when and how sanctions are unwound and that is a little bit in the lap of others.

  4. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

    The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

  5. Haniel Long:

    So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

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