All 26 Uses of
bound
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- He was very drunk: and had dropped asleep on the bench; every now and then, he began as though in his sleep, cracking his fingers, with his arms wide apart and the upper part of his body bounding about on the bench, while he hummed some meaningless refrain, trying to recall some such lines as these: "His wife a year he fondly loved His wife a—a year he—fondly loved."†
Chpt 1.1 *bounding = leaping or jumping
- It was only the unbounded confidence inspired by Nastasya's account of her brother's queer friend, which prevented her from trying to run away from him, and to persuade her mother to do the same.†
Chpt 3.1unbounded = not limited or without boundariesstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbounded means not and reverses the meaning of bounded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Here was a girl of pride, character, virtue, of education and breeding superior to his own (he felt that), and this creature would be slavishly grateful all her life for his heroic condescension, and would humble herself in the dust before him, and he would have absolute, unbounded power over her!†
Chpt 4.3 *
- Come sit down, you are tired, I'll be bound.†
Chpt 2.2
- The only comfort is, that it's bound to be a change for the better.†
Chpt 2.2
- You've cross-examined my landlady, I'll be bound....Well, that's enough!†
Chpt 2.6
- He is bound to die within the next five or ten minutes.†
Chpt 2.7
- The only difference is that I don't contend that extraordinary people are always bound to commit breaches of morals, as you call it.†
Chpt 3.5
- I maintain that if the discoveries of Kepler and Newton could not have been made known except by sacrificing the lives of one, a dozen, a hundred, or more men, Newton would have had the right, would indeed have been in duty bound...to eliminate the dozen or the hundred men for the sake of making his discoveries known to the whole of humanity.†
Chpt 3.5
- A man in health has, of course, no reason to see them, because he is above all a man of this earth and is bound for the sake of completeness and order to live only in this life.†
Chpt 4.1
- "But you have bound me, Pulcheria Alexandrovna," Luzhin stormed in a frenzy, "by your promise, and now you deny it and...besides...I have been led on account of that into expenses...."†
Chpt 4.2
- Mercy on us, we have bound you!†
Chpt 4.2
- What are you thinking about, Pyotr Petrovitch, it was you bound us, hand and foot, not we!†
Chpt 4.2
- It was bound in leather, old and worn.†
Chpt 4.4
- Bound hand and foot with graveclothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin.†
Chpt 4.4
- Bound hand and foot with graveclothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin.†
Chpt 4.4
- An examining lawyer cannot be bounded by formality at every step.†
Chpt 4.5
- In one case I may be bound, for instance, to arrest a man at once, but another may be in quite a different position, you know, so why shouldn't I let him walk about the town a bit?†
Chpt 4.5
- If I leave one man quite alone, if I don't touch him and don't worry him, but let him know or at least suspect every moment that I know all about it and am watching him day and night, and if he is in continual suspicion and terror, he'll be bound to lose his head.†
Chpt 4.5
- Knowing his nervous temperament and from the first glance seeing through him, Porfiry, though playing a bold game, was bound to win.†
Chpt 4.6
- They are the sort of people that would feel bound to return money and presents if they broke it off; and they would find it hard to do it!†
Chpt 5.1
- He would sit in a corner and look at me, I used to feel so sorry for him, I used to want to be kind to him and then would think to myself: 'Be kind to him and he will drink again,' it was only by severity that you could keep him within bounds.†
Chpt 5.2
- At least you didn't deceive yourself for long, you went straight to the furthest point at one bound.†
Chpt 6.2 *
- After many tears an unwritten contract was drawn up between us: first, that I would never leave Marfa Petrovna and would always be her husband; secondly, that I would never absent myself without her permission; thirdly, that I would never set up a permanent mistress; fourthly, in return for this, Marfa Petrovna gave me a free hand with the maidservants, but only with her secret knowledge; fifthly, God forbid my falling in love with a woman of our class; sixthly, in case I—which God forbid—should be visited by a great serious passion I was bound to reveal it to Marfa Petrovna.†
Chpt 6.4
- She is bound to want to 'save him,' to bring him to his senses, and lift him up and draw him to nobler aims, and restore him to new life and usefulness—well, we all know how far such dreams can go.†
Chpt 6.4
- I may be an official, but I am always bound to feel myself a man and a citizen....You were asking about Zametov.†
Chpt 6.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(bound as in: south-bound lanes) traveling in a particular direction or to a specific location
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(2)
(bound as in: bound to succeed) almost certain to; or determined to
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(3)
(bound as in: bound together or bound by law) constrained and/or held together or wrappedThe sense of constrained, can mean tied up or obligated depending upon the context. For example:
- "Her wrists were bound." -- tied up
- "I am bound by my word." -- required or obligated (in this case to keep a promise)
- "He is muscle bound." -- prevented from moving easily (due to having such large, tight muscles)
The exact meaning of the senses of held together or wrapped also depend upon context. For example:- "The pages of the book are bound with glue." -- held together physically
- "The book is bound in leather." -- wrapped or covered
- "The United States and England are bound together by a common language." -- connected or united (tied together, figuratively)
- "She cleaned the wound and bound it with fresh bandages." -- wrapped
- "She is wheelchair-bound." -- connected (moves with a wheelchair because she is unable to walk)
- "The jacket has bound buttonholes." -- edges wrapped by fabric or trim rather than stitches
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(4)
(bound as in: out of bounds) a boundary or limit
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(5)
(bound as in: The deer bound across the trail.) to leap or jump
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(6)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
For more specialized senses of bound, see a comprehensive dictionary. For example, the word can refer to constipation and has specialized meanings in law, chemistry, logic, and linguistics.