bound up
adjective
: closely involved or associated
—usually used with with
his life was bound up with the town's history
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Your next outdoor bash or beachside hang deserves some attention to the cookware and coolers you’re bound up grilling with and using to stuff to the brim with ice and beverages.
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Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2025
Praying, on the other hand, is abstract and bound up in ideas and words.
—Judy Knotts, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Even in those earliest of gloomy days, oxygen — the element O — was all over the place, bound up in molecules like water vapor and quartz and carbon dioxide.
—Laura Poppick, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
So far, 2025 is shaping up to be the year of sad lady knights bound up in duty and love.
—Caitlin Starling, People.com, 19 May 2025
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Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2025
Praying, on the other hand, is abstract and bound up in ideas and words.
—Judy Knotts, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Even in those earliest of gloomy days, oxygen — the element O — was all over the place, bound up in molecules like water vapor and quartz and carbon dioxide.
—Laura Poppick, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
So far, 2025 is shaping up to be the year of sad lady knights bound up in duty and love.
—Caitlin Starling, People.com, 19 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for bound up
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“Bound up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bound%20up. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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