binded vs bound

Definitions

adjective

1. covered or wrapped with a bandage
2. headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'
3. confined in the bowels
4. held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
5. bound by contract

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verb

1. spring back; spring away from an impact
2. move forward by leaps and bounds
3. place limits on (extent or amount or access)
4. form the boundary of; be contiguous to

noun

1. a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
2. the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
3. the greatest possible degree of something
4. a line determining the limits of an area

Examples

The ball rebounded from/off the wall into the pond.

Either the recession is biting harder than I had realised or a lot of people are confused about the boundaries between fact and fiction.

Nilufer Bharucha, faculty in the department of English and project coordinator, explained that the term diaspora means to be scattered or dispersed across national boundaries, and has been self-consciously used today by postcolonial theorists to describe those who got displaced from their home owing to colonial politics and post-colonial economic realities.

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