to bound
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4.2
- verb
- /baʊnd/
:
saltar
- Two weeks after his brush with death, the President is suddenly bounding around the country.
And next thing you know, like we're bounding forward.
- And next thing you know, like we're bounding forward.
- and I see a deer bounding across the road, I'd say to myself, wow, that deer doesn't have grocery stores or Internet.
Examples
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Then at 4:10 p.m. (exactly!) he would come bounding down the steps.
Academic text (2010) -
First came a man bounding like a deer, his legs extending mightily forward and back.
Fiction book (1993) -
And next thing you know, like we're bounding forward.
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I imagined him bounding down the steps to meet me.
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I came bounding down the stairs of the theater toward the stage.
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Suddenly, a large brown hare bounded into view on the other side of the field.
Fiction book (1990) -
Instantly, Coll was gone, leaping from the rock into the shadows beyond and bounding away into the trees.
Fiction book (1993) -
The stag stood motionless for a moment, then bounded off frantically into the woods.
Fiction book (1992) -
As Jaxx enters, BLACKHAWK, their big black hunting Bouvier, bounds over to greet her.
Fiction book (1993) -
I came bounding down the stairs of the theater toward the stage.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To push yourself off the ground with your legs into the air
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1.0
To jump quickly from one place to another or make something jump
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1.0
To move suddenly by jumping, leaping, or bouncing
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A small part added to a word that cannot stand alone, like -s in cats and -ed in walked
How Far
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bound (to leap) comes from an old word for jumping and is like the word bounce, so to bound is to jump forward with energy.