bound up

adjective

|Updated on: 12 Jun 2018

Definition of bound up

: closely involved or associated —usually used with with

his life was bound up with the town's history

Recent Examples of bound up from the Web

The experience of interiority and the outside conditions controlling our bodies are bound up in a way that only imprisonment unites so literally.

— josephine livingstone, The New Republic, "The bold, vivid worlds of Rachel Kushner’s novels," 7 June 2018
As the term 'prestige construction' hints, hypercorrection is intimately bound up with issues of social class.

— melissa mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, "Bending over backward to be wrong," 7 June 2018
Beneath the modern coral formations Jimenez studies is another trove of data bound up in fossilized coral cores.

— elizabeth svoboda, Scientific American, "Cores from Coral Reefs Hold Secrets of the Seas’ Past and Future," 6 June 2018
And zoning is bound up in the fundamentals of financing and deadening repetition about maintaining property values by unidimensional use.

— anthony alofsin, The Atlantic, "A Defense of the Suburbs," 6 June 2018
And bound up in the concrete and physical reality of what my body was doing, was the great mystery of what it was engaged in — the mystery of existence itself.

— catherine chung, The Cut, "What Does Being Pregnant Feel Like? Part V," 31 May 2018
Antitrust law is bound up in confusing terminology and complex measurements like the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index.

— david dayen, The New Republic, "The Ticket Monopoly Is Worse Than Ever (Thanks, Obama)," 15 May 2018
The security of the U.S. is bound up in all types of ships, boats and shore establishments—and not only in building, but repair and maintenance also.

— WSJ, "Jones Act Has Benefits, Isn’t All About Costs," 8 May 2018
This explanation also ignores how intimately the Electoral College is bound up with slavery.

— luke darby, GQ, "Trump Wants to Throw Out the Electoral College," 27 Apr. 2018

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