bound up

adjective

Updated on: 18 Apr 2018

Definition of bound up

: closely involved or associated —usually used with with

his life was bound up with the town's history

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Looking to the future, researchers hope to make breakthroughs of similar prominence, using glass to bind up nuclear waste, make safer batteries, and fashion biomedical implants.

— doug main, The Atlantic, "Humankind’s Most Important Material," 7 Apr. 2018
For the big-dreaming but put-upon Lucha (Jennifer Paredes), the play’s central character, mariachi is connected to cherished childhood memories and bound up with a present-day mystery.

— james hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Old Globe's 'American Mariachi' a vibrant ode to music and memory," 31 Mar. 2018
All of that was bound up and burst free in Self’s moment at the buzzer.

— george schroeder, USA TODAY, "Final Four: 'Special season' for Bill Self and Kansas can get even better," 29 Mar. 2018
The rapper obsesses over Cobain’s self-destruction, the idolization of which has historically been bound up with the vilification of Courtney Love.

— spencer kornhaber, The Atlantic, "The Unsettling Familiarity of XXXTentacion," 26 Mar. 2018
His pageant has no clear chronology; it’s as if history is bound up in a knot, repeating itself.

— cate mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com, "William Kentridge turns history downside up," 21 Mar. 2018
There's also the compound tragedy bound up in any celebrity death, which is that its emotional toll on the family recurs after the event, endlessly and at unpredictable intervals.

— molly young, GQ, "The Excessive Vision of Donatella Versace," 20 Mar. 2018
May his soul be bound up in the bond of eternal life and may his memory be for a blessing.

— Sun-Sentinel.com, "Deaths in South Florida: 3/20," 20 Mar. 2018
No, my love for the show was always bound up in its ridiculousness.

— heather havrilesky, The Cut, "‘Mallory Is Not Gone’: Daniel Mallory Ortberg on Coming Out As Trans," 13 Mar. 2018

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