bound vs binded
bound
Definitions
adjective
- covered or wrapped with a bandage
- headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'
- confined in the bowels
- held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
- bound by contract
verb
- spring back; spring away from an impact
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
noun
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
- the greatest possible degree of something
- 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.
One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today.
