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  1. intransitive verb To leap forward or upward; spring.
  2. intransitive verb To progress by forward leaps or springs.
  3. intransitive verb To bounce; rebound.
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  • In the hotel, in front of the mirror, the New Testament in French, bound in leather; you felt that you had come to the capital of Calvinism. —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • Academic institutions are notoriously tradition-bound, and it's too early to tell how quickly, or how successfully, colleges will adjust to the new economic realities. —  Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com
  • After two big and demoralizing losses against teams who are not exactly Super Bowl bound, that is what many Bengals fans are wondering when looking to the Bengals-Giants matchup. —  The Fifth Down
  • He is wheelchair-bound, and walking up and down the rubble is simply not an option for him. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • See--here they are Saying which, he handed to his visitor a copy of the New Testament and Psalms, in Malagasy, bound together But Mamba did not leap at this gift as might have been expected. —  The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar
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boundary ·  semblance ·  limit ·  notion ·  reach ·  limitation ·  want ·  dictate ·  verge ·  confine ·  breach ·  sphere

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bound:   bind ·  binding ·  binds
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  1. French bondir, to bounce, from Old French, to resound, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *bombitīre, from Latin bombitāre, to hum, from bombus, a humming sound, from Greek bombos.
  2. Middle English, from Old French bodne, bonde and Anglo-Norman bunde, both from Medieval Latin bodina, of Celtic origin.
  3. Alteration of Middle English boun, ready, from Old Norse būinn, past participle of būa, to get ready; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also bownde, bowne; from Middle English bounde, boune, bunne, from Old French bunne, bonne, bone, bune, also bunde, bonde (Anglo-French bounde), earlier bodne, from Middle Latin bodina, bodena (also, after Old French, buuna, bonna), earlier butina, a bound, limit. Cf. bourn, a variant of the same word.
  2. from Middle English bounden, from bounde, n.
  3. First in early modern English; from French bondir, leap, bound, orig. make a loud resounding noise; perhaps from Late Latin bombitare, hum, buzz, freq. verb from Latin bombus, a humming or buzzing, later bomb, q. v.
  4. from bound, v.
  5. Pp. of bind; as an adjective, in the sense of obligatory, usually in the fuller form, bounden, from Middle English bounden, from Anglo-Saxon bunden, past participle of bindan, bind: see bind.
  6. With excrescent -d after n, as in sound, round, etc., or by confusion with bound, from Middle English boun, boune, ready, prepared: see boun, adjective
  7. Var. of boun, v., as bound, a., of boun, adjective
 

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