Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Impeded, hindered, or hemmed in by water, as in case of a flood, heavy rains, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Prevented by a flood from proceeding.

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Examples

  • Take Price Billiot, 63, who runs a seafood dock in Pointe-Aux-Chenes, a dilapidated and water-bound town that stretches along a bayou in the tall marshes near Montegut.

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  • However, the documented sighting of a plesiosaur, a water-bound creature, in 1923 made cryptozoologist believe that the specimen of these monsters existed in the lake at least 200 years ago.

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  • Toward the end of the nineteenth century many roads were made from water-bound macadam.

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  • EYRE: The Senegalese collective V.A. Capsi Revolution, rapping in French and Wolof here, lay out the rationale for water-bound migration, but the songs final rapper calls it a suicide mission and bids his peers not to give up on Senegal.

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  • The film opens in 1954 as World War II veteran and current federal marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner, Chuck (Mark Ruffalo), ferry to Shutter Island, a water-bound mental hospital housing the criminally insane.

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  • Toward the end of the nineteenth century many roads were made from water-bound macadam.

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  • Seedlings, unable to dodge the impending onslaught of raindrops, continued on their course while water-bound leaves deposited themselves all along the edges of the brook on both sides.

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  • At the time, she was a water-bound athlete, swimming and playing on the boys water polo team at Valencia High School in Placentia, Calif.

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  • They're water-bound hellzones, natural refuges for the forces of pain, deception, and death.

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  • Toward the end of the nineteenth century many roads were made from water-bound macadam.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

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