Bind Definition

bīnd

binding, binds, bound

verb

binding, binds, bound

To tie or secure, as with a rope or cord.

American Heritage

To tie together; make fast or tight, as with a rope or band.

Webster's New World

To do the act of binding.

Webster's New World

To hold or restrain by tying with rope or bonds.

Bound the prisoner.

American Heritage

To hold or restrain as if tied or tied down.

Bound by convention.

Webster's New World

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noun

binds

The act of binding.

American Heritage

Anything that binds.

Webster's New World

The state of being bound.

American Heritage

A difficult or restrictive situation; jam.

To be in a bind.

Webster's New World

Something that binds.

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idiom

bind over

to put under legal bond to appear at a specified time and place, as before a law court

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Bind

Singular:

bind

Plural:

From Middle English binden, from Old English bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną (compare West Frisian bine, Dutch binden, Low German binnen, German binden, Danish binde), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”) (compare Welsh benn (“cart”), Latin offendīx (“knot, band”), Lithuanian beñdras (“partner”), Albanian bend (“servant,henchman”), bind (“to convince, persuade, tame”), Ancient Greek πεῖσμα (peisma, “cable, rope”), Sanskrit बध्नाति (badhnāti)).

From Wiktionary
Middle English binden from Old English bindan bhendh- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From the above verb.

From Wiktionary