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UNBOUND
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not restrained or tied down by bonds
Classified under:
Similar:
unchained; unfettered; unshackled; untied (not bound by shackles and chains)
untethered (not confined or restricted with a tether)
Also:
free (not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint)
Antonym:
bound (confined by bonds)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not secured within a cover
Example:
an unbound book
Classified under:
Similar:
looseleaf (being or having leaves that can be easily removed or rearranged)
Antonym:
bound (secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not held in chemical or physical combination
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
free (unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb unbind
Context examples:
The scene-painter was gone, having spoilt only the floor of one room, ruined all the coachman's sponges, and made five of the under-servants idle and dissatisfied; and Sir Thomas was in hopes that another day or two would suffice to wipe away every outward memento of what had been, even to the destruction of every unbound copy of Lovers' Vows in the house, for he was burning all that met his eye.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
This they made me swear to do, and then they unbound me, only fastening one of my legs with a chain, near my bed, and placed a sentry at my door with his piece charged, who was commanded to shoot me dead if I attempted my liberty.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
