Definitions for binds

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binds bind

Spelling: [bahynd]

IPA: /baɪnd/

Binds is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in binds (bdins).

Definitions for binds

noun

1. the act or process of binding; the state or instance of being bound.
2. something that binds.
3. Music. a tie, slur, or brace.
4. Falconry. the act of binding prey in flight.
5. Informal. a difficult situation or predicament:

Verb phrases

1. bind off, Textiles. to loop (one stitch) over another in making an edge on knitted fabric.

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten or secure with a band or bond.
2. to encircle with a band or ligature:
3. to swathe or bandage (often followed by up):
4. to fasten around; fix in place by girding:
5. to tie up (anything, as sheaves of grain).
6. to cause to cohere:
7. to unite by any legal or moral tie:
8. to hold to a particular state, place, employment, etc.:
9. to place under obligation or compulsion (usually used passively):
10. Law. to put under legal obligation, as to keep the peace or appear as a witness (often followed by over):
11. to make compulsory or obligatory:
12. to fasten or secure within a cover, as a book:
13. to cover the edge of, as for protection or ornament:
14. (of clothing) to chafe or restrict (the wearer):
15. Medicine/Medical. to hinder or restrain (the bowels) from their natural operations; constipate.
16. to indenture as an apprentice (often followed by out):

verb (used without object)

1. to become compact or solid; cohere.
2. to be obligatory:
3. to chafe or restrict, as poorly fitting garments:
4. to stick fast, as a drill in a hole.
5. Falconry. (of a hawk) to grapple or grasp prey firmly in flight.

Origin of binds

before 1000; Middle English binden (v.), Old English bindan; cognate with Old High German bintan, Old Norse binda, Gothic bindan, Sanskrit bandhati (he) binds

Examples for binds

This has put Ukrainian gay activists and their allies in a bind.

We cannot break the links which bind the individual to the race.

bind me over again to my good behaviour you may, by a single word.

Well, then, be it so; but loving me does not bind you too much.

It is precisely the ability of WGA to bind to proteins lining the gut that raises concern amongst medical researchers.

Unfortunately, it does not bind me more than I am bound; but it binds you, Rosa, you.

On Escobar's order, Popeye took Mendoza hostage in the warden's house while Escobar tried to figure his way out of the bind.

Finally, Mandela understood the ties that bind the human spirit.

By announcing this meeting with such feel-good publicity, they are placing their successors in quite a bind.

The people who matter to us are the people who rest us—and calm us—and bind up our wounds.