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BOUND UP
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deeply devoted to
Example:
is wrapped up in his family
Synonyms:
bound up; wrapped up
Classified under:
Similar:
committed (bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Closely or inseparably connected or associated with
Example:
his career is bound up with the fortunes of the enterprise
Classified under:
Similar:
related; related to (being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics)
Context examples:
I only observed that my mother was as far off from me as she could be, and kept her face another way so that I never saw it; and that Mr. Murdstone's hand was bound up in a large linen wrapper.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
On the other, a bunch of metal alloys that it was bound up with.
(Scientists Find Way to Extract Oxygen from Moon Dirt, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
My future hopes and prospects are entirely bound up in the expectation of our union.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
With this, and with my aid, Hands bound up the great bleeding stab he had received in the thigh, and after he had eaten a little and had a swallow or two more of the brandy, he began to pick up visibly, sat straighter up, spoke louder and clearer, and looked in every way another man.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Oh, my dear, it might have been a better fortune for you, if you had been fond of someone else—of someone steadier and much worthier than me, who was all bound up in you, and never vain and changeable like me!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But when he began to hew down a tree, it was not long before he made a false stroke, and the axe cut him in the arm, so that he had to go home and have it bound up.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I declare, it really seems like being a fine young lady, to come home from the party in a carriage and sit in my dressing gown with a maid to wait on me, said Meg, as Jo bound up her foot with arnica and brushed her hair.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
