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know no bounds/boundaries

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Definition of know no bounds/boundaries

1 : to be capable of affecting people everywhere
  • This is a disease that knows no boundaries.
2 : to have no limits
  • My admiration for him knows no bounds/boundaries.

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know play

  1. : to perceive directly : have direct cognition of

  2. : to have understanding of

  3. : to recognize the nature of : discern

  1. : knowledge

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bound play bounds

  1. : ready

  2. : intending to go : going

  1. : a limiting line : boundary

  2. : something that limits or restrains

  3. : borderland

  1. : past tense and past participle of bind

  1. : to set limits to : confine

  2. : to form a separating line or the boundary of : enclose

  3. : to name the boundaries of

  1. : placed under legal or moral restraint or obligation : obliged

  2. : fastened by or as if by a band : confined

  3. : very likely : sure

  1. : leap, jump

  2. : the action of rebounding : bounce

  1. : to move by leaping

  2. : rebound, bounce

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boundary play boundaries

  1. : something that indicates or fixes a limit or extent

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