All 6 Uses
bind
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White: The Great Pursuit
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- You get in a bind, I come after you.
Chpt 35 *bind = difficult situation
- But I warn you, we have a law that binds us.
Chpt 42 *binds = constrains
- The guards were binding their hands behind their backs now.
Chpt 44binding = tying
- I have no attraction to him as a man, thank Elyon for that, or I might be in a real bind.†
Chpt 18
- "Bind them!" he ordered.†
Chpt 42
- She instinctively struggled against the restraints around her wrists-as was the custom, they were only loose bindings hastily tied to prevent an episode at the last moment on the platform.†
Chpt 44 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(bind as in: bind hands, a wound, or a people) to tie, hold, or unite together; or something that does so
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(2)
(bind as in: a binding contract) constrain or require
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(3)
(bind as in: It put me in a bind.) a difficult situation
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) For more specialized senses of bind, see a comprehensive dictionary. For example, the word can refer to constipation and has specialized meanings in law, chemistry, logic, and linguistics.