A place where something binds: a bind halfway up the seam of the skirt.
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Informal A difficult, restrictive, or unresolvable situation: found themselves in a bind when their car broke down.
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Music A tie, slur, or brace.
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Something that binds.
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The act of binding.
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phrasal-verb
Bind off To cast off in knitting.
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Bind over Law To hold on bail or place under bond.
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verb-intransitive
Chemistry To combine chemically or form a chemical bond.
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To be compelling or unifying: the ties that bind.
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To be uncomfortably tight or restricting, as clothes.
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To become compact or solid; cohere.
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To stick or become stuck: applied a lubricant to keep the moving parts from binding.
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verb-transitive
Chemistry To combine with, form a chemical bond with, or be taken up by, as an enzyme with its substrate.
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Law To place under legal obligation by contract or oath.
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To apprentice or indenture: was bound out as a servant.
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To bandage: bound up their wounds.
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To cause to cohere or stick together in a mass: Bind the dry ingredients with milk and eggs.
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verb
To make secure by tying.
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To confine, restrain, or restrict as if with bonds.
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To put under an obligation .
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To constrain with legal authority.
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To wrap around with something so as to enclose or cover.
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