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📜 To make obligated 🪢 To tie tightly 🔗 To join closely 🤝 To connect emotionally 😬 A difficult situation 📚 To cover a book 🥔 To cause constipation
to bind

to bind

23 5.1
To give a book or notebook a protective cover
  • verb
  • /baɪnd/
translation icon : encuadernar
  • The notebook is always bound and never contains loose pages, and each page is numbered consecutively.
  • a bound book
  • printed and bound
  • spiral-bound

Examples

  • It's about the same size as a large photograph album, bound in leather, finished in gold, and I want it returned quickly.

    Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)

  • This is a large book bound in watered silk.

    Prospero's Books (1991)

  • I need to get 'em bound.

    Copycat (2016)

  • Anyway, your dad had it specially bound by that man in Italy years ago.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The next year, 1421, Ho bound the map beautifully and presented it to the king.

    Academic text (2016)

  • When she turned back to Mandy, she held a slim volume bound in black leather.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • You also get this leather-bound set of encyclopedias.

    The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)

  • The book was a paperback, a Marine Corps field manual bound with a manila cover.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • It was in Oslo when I first caught a glimpse of your little notebook red leather-bound from Smythson of Bond Street.

    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

  • The artist created a stunning coffee table book, elegantly bound in rich mahogany.

Antonyms

to loosen
88 1.0

Make something less tight so it can move or open

Idioms

to bind hand and foot
  • Informal
1 8.0

To stop someone completely from acting freely

Phrasal Verbs

to bind over
  • Jargon
2 9.8

To order a defendant to be kept in custody or to obey certain rules until a later court hearing

to bind off
  • Jargon
7.8

To finish a row of knitting by securing stitches so they do not come undone

Compounds

double bind
  • Specialized
2 8.1

A situation where you are given two conflicting demands you cannot satisfy, often from someone in charge

How Durable

to sew
242 1.0
to bind
23 5.1
to glue
75 1.0

Surface Forms

bind infinitive
binding present participle
binds third person singular
bound past
bound past participle

Etymology

Bind (verb, book) comes from 'to tie' and was used for fastening pages, which is why we call the cover or fastened pages the 'book binding'. So to bind a book is to fasten its pages and cover together.