Definition of bind

"bind" in the noun sense

1. bind

something that hinders as if with bonds

"bind" in the verb sense

1. adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to

stick to firmly

"Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?"

2. bind, tie, attach, bond

create social or emotional ties

"The grandparents want to bond with the child"

3. bind

make fast tie or secure, with or as if with a rope

"The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"

4. bind, bandage

wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose

5. tie down, tie up, bind, truss

secure with or as if with ropes

"tie down the prisoners"

"tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"

6. oblige, bind, hold, obligate

bind by an obligation cause to be indebted

"He's held by a contract"

"I'll hold you by your promise"

7. bind

provide with a binding

"bind the books in leather"

8. tie, bind

fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord

"They tied their victim to the chair"

9. bind

form a chemical bond with

"The hydrogen binds the oxygen"

10. constipate, bind

cause to be constipated

"These foods tend to constipate you"

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Quotations for bind

Fast bind, fast find. [ Proverb ]

Bind so as you may unbind. [ Proverb ]

Strong souls, within the present live.
The future veiled, the past forgot;
Grasping what is, with hands of steel,
They bind what shall be, to their will. [ Lewis Morris ]

True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven;
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy.
The silver link, the silken tie.
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind. [ Walter Scott ]

To purchase Heaven has gold the power?
Can gold remove the mortal hour?
In life can love be bought with gold?
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
No - all that's worth a wish - a thought.
Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought.
Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind,
Let nobler views engage thy mind. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The fetters of the slave bind the hands only. [ Grillparzer ]

Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art.
For there thy habitation is the Heart -
The Heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consigned -
To fetters and the damp vault's dayless gloom,
Their country conquers with their Martyrdom,
And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. [ Byron ]

Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]

Honest men are soon bound, but you can never bind a knave. [ Proverb ]

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread. [ Burton ]

Great effects come of industry and perseverance; for audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds. [ Bacon ]

Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion. [ George D. Prentice ]

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Good words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him. [ Leighton ]

When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books. [ James Freeman Clarke ]

bind in Scrabble®

The word bind is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters bind:

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bind in Words With Friends™

The word bind is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters bind:

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Words within the letters of bind

2 letter words in bind (2 words)

3 letter words in bind (4 words)

4 letter words in bind (1 word)

bind + 1 blank (3 words)

Word Growth involving bind

Shorter words in bind

in bin

Longer words containing bind

binded

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bindweed bindweeds

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subindex subindexes

subindices

subindividual subindividuals

unbind unbindable

unbind unbinding

unbind unbinds