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Synonyms of the word 
BOUND → APPRENTICED - ARTICLED - BANDAGED - BORDER - BOUNCE - BOUND - BOUNDARY - BOUNDS - BRASSBOUND - CASED - CERTAIN - CHAINED - CHECK - CONFINE - CONJUGATE - CONJUGATED - CONSTIPATED - CONTAIN - CONTROL - CURB - DESTINED - EDGE - ENCHAINED - ENCLOSE - EXTENT - EXTREMITY - FETTERED - FURLED - HALF-BOUND - HOLD - INDENTURED - JUMP - JUMPING - LEAP - LEAPING - LIMIT - LINE - MODERATE - MOVE - ORIENTATED - ORIENTED - PAPERBACK - PAPERBACKED - PINIONED - REBOUND - RECOIL - RESILE - RESTRAIN - RESTRICT - REVERBERATE - RICOCHET - ROLLED - SALTATION - SHACKLED - SPRING - SURE - SWORN - TETHERED - THROTTLE - TIED - TRAMMEL - TREATED - TRUSSED - UNFREE - WIREDbound- v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
- adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
- adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
- adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
- adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
- adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
- adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
- adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
- n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
- n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
- v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
- v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
- n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
- n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
- n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
- v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
- v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
- v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
- v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
- adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
- adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
apprenticed- v. simple past tense and past participle of apprentice.
articled- v. simple past tense and past participle of article.
- adj. bound under the articles of an apprenticeship.
bandaged- v. simple past tense and past participle of bandage.
border- n. The outer edge of something.
- n. A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- n. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- n. The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- n. (Britain) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance…
- v. (transitive) To put a border on something.
- v. (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
- v. (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on or upon).
- v. (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge.
bounce- v. (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- v. (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
- v. (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to…
- v. (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- v. (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient…
- v. (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
- v. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
- v. (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
- v. (intransitive, slang, African American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have…
- v. (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
- v. (intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.
- v. (intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered.
- v. (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- v. (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard on unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- v. (slang, dated) To bully; to scold.
- v. (archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
- v. (archaic) To boast; to bluster.
- n. A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- n. A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
- n. An email return with any error.
- n. The sack, licensing.
- n. A bang, boom.
- n. A drink based on brandyW.
- n. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
- n. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
- n. Scyllium catulus, a European dogfish.
- n. A genre of New Orleans music.
- n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Drugs..
- n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Swagger..
- n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A 'good' beat.
- n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A talent for leaping..
bound- v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
- adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
- adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
- adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
- adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
- adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
- adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
- adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
- n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
- n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
- v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
- v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
- n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
- n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
- n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
- v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
- v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
- v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
- v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
- adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
- adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
boundary- n. The dividing line or location between two areas.
- n. (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
- n. (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without…
bounds- n. plural of bound.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bound.
brassboundcased- v. simple past tense and past participle of case.
- adj. Having a case or covering; encased or clad.
certain- adj. Sure, positive, not doubting.
- adj. (obsolete) Determined; resolved.
- adj. Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
- adj. Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
- adj. Unfailing; infallible.
- adj. Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
- adj. Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independently as a noun,…
- pron. (with of) Unnamed or undescribed members (of).
- n. (with "the") Something certain.
chained- v. simple past tense and past participle of chain.
- adj. Bound with chains.
- adj. (computing, of data items) Linked in a chain.
check- n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
- n. An inspection or examination.
- n. A control; a limit or stop.
- n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
- n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
- n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
- n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- n. A small chink or crack.
- v. To inspect; to examine.
- v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have…
- v. To control, limit, or halt.
- v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
- v. To leave in safekeeping.
- v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have…
- v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
- v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
- v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
- v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
- v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
- v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
- v. To act as a curb or restraint.
- v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- n. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered…
confine- v. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
- v. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
- n. Limit.
conjugate- v. (grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.
- v. (mathematics) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
- v. (rare) To join together, unite; to juxtapose.
- v. (biology, of bacteria and algae) To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
- n. Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
- n. (mathematics) (of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
- n. (mathematics) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same…
- n. (mathematics) An explementary angle.
- n. (grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
- adj. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
- adj. (botany) In single pairs; coupled.
- adj. (chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
- adj. (grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
- adj. (mathematics) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities,…
conjugated- adj. joined together in pairs.
- adj. (chemistry) of an organic compound, or a part of such a compound, containing one or more pairs of double…
- v. simple past tense and past participle of conjugate.
constipated- adj. Unable to defecate.
- v. simple past tense and past participle of constipate.
contain- v. (transitive) To hold inside.
- v. (transitive) To include as a part.
- v. (transitive) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
- v. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
control- v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
- v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
- n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
- n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
- n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
- n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
- n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
- n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
- n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
- n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
- n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
- n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…
curb- n. (Canada, US) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK).
- n. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
- n. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
- n. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by…
- n. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with…
- n. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint,…
- v. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
- v. (transitive) To rein in.
- v. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
- v. (transitive) To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
- v. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
- v. (transitive) To bend or curve.
- v. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.
destined- adj. Confined to a predetermined fate or destiny; certain.
- v. simple past tense and past participle of destine.
edge- n. The boundary line of a surface.
- n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices…
- n. An advantage.
- n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword,…
- n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time).
- n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of…
- v. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- v. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric…
- v. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- v. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
enchained- v. simple past tense and past participle of enchain.
enclose- v. (transitive) To surround with a wall, fence, etc.
- v. (transitive) To insert into a container, usually an envelope or package.
- v. (intransitive) To hold or contain.
extent- n. A range of values or locations.
- n. The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
- n. (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
- adj. (obsolete) Extended.
extremity- n. The most extreme or furthest point of something.
- n. An extreme measure.
- n. A hand or foot.
- n. A limb (major appendage of human or animal such as a leg an arm or a wing).
fettered- v. simple past tense and past participle of fetter.
- adj. Bound by chains or shackles.
- adj. (by extension) Restricted.
furled- v. simple past tense and past participle of furl.
half-bound- adj. (of a book) Having only the back and corners bound in leather.
hold- adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
- v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- v. (transitive) To contain or store.
- v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
- v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
- v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
- v. To take place, to occur.
- v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
- n. A grasp or grip.
- n. A place where animals are held for safety.
- n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- n. Something reserved or kept.
- n. Power over someone or something.
- n. The ability to persist.
- n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
- n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
- n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
- n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).
indentured- v. simple past tense and past participle of indenture.
- adj. Subject to an indenture.
jump- v. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that…
- v. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- v. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
- v. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- v. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound)…
- v. (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position…
- v. (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
- v. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
- v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
- v. (transitive) To cause to jump.
- v. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- v. (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and…
- v. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
- v. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
- v. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- v. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
- v. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
- v. (intransitive, computing) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the…
- n. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- n. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- n. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- n. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- n. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- n. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- n. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- n. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- n. A jumping move in a board game.
- n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself…
- n. (sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over…
- n. (with on) An early start or an advantage.
- n. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured…
- n. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- n. (computing) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- adv. (obsolete) exactly; precisely.
- adj. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
- n. A kind of loose jacket for men.
jumping- adj. (colloquial) Excellent, very fun.
- v. present participle of jump.
- n. The act of performing a jump.
leap- v. (intransitive) To jump.
- v. (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.
- v. (transitive) To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
- v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
- n. The act of leaping or jumping.
- n. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- n. (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- n. (mining) A fault.
- n. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- n. (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including…
- n. (obsolete) A basket.
- n. A weel or wicker trap for fish.
- n. (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.
- n. (figuratively) Synonym of exaggeration.
- n. basket.
- n. a trap or snare for fish.
- n. half a bushel.
leaping- v. present participle of leap.
limit- n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit…
- n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
- n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
- n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
- n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
- v. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
- v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
- v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
line- n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
- n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
- n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
- n. Direction, path.
- n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
- n. A letter, a written form of communication.
- n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
- n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
- n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
- n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
- n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
- n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
- n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
- n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
- n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
- n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
- n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- n. A measure of length.
- n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
- n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
- n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
- n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
- n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
- n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
- v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
- v. To form a line along.
- v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
- v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
- v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
- v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
- v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
- v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
- v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
- v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.
moderate- adj. Not excessive; acting in moderation.
- adj. Mediocre.
- adj. Average priced; standard-deal.
- adj. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
- adj. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
- n. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
- v. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
- v. (intransitive) To become less excessive.
- v. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
- v. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.
move- v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
- v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
- v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
- v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
- v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
- v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
- v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
- v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
- v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
- n. The act of moving; a movement.
- n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
- n. The event of changing one's residence.
- n. A change in strategy.
- n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…
orientated- v. simple past tense and past participle of orientate.
oriented- adj. Having a specific orientation.
- v. simple past tense and past participle of orient.
paperback- n. A book with flexible binding.
- adj. (of a book) Having flexible binding.
paperbacked- adj. Having the sort of flexible binding characteristic of a paperback book.
pinioned- v. simple past tense and past participle of pinion.
rebound- n. The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
- n. A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
- n. An effort to recover from a setback.
- n. A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of…
- n. (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
- n. (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being…
- v. To bound or spring back from a force.
- v. To give back an echo.
- v. (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
- v. (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.
- v. simple past tense and past participle of rebind.
recoil- n. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
- n. The state or condition of having recoiled.
- n. (firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function…
- v. (intransitive, now rare) To retreat before an opponent.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To retire, withdraw.
- v. To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
- v. (of a firearm) To kick back when fired.
resile- v. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
- v. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
restrain- v. (transitive) To control or keep in check.
- v. (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
- v. (transitive) To restrict or limit.
restrict- v. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine.
- v. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
- adj. (obsolete) Restricted.
reverberate- v. (intransitive) to ring with many echos.
- v. (intransitive) to have a lasting effect.
- v. (intransitive) to repeatedly return.
- v. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
- v. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
- v. To fuse by reverberated heat.
- v. (intransitive) to rebound or recoil.
- v. (intransitive) to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
- v. (obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light.
- adj. reverberant.
- adj. Driven back, as sound; reflected.
ricochet- n. (military) A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
- n. An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.
- v. To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.
- v. (military) To operate upon by ricochet firing.
rolled- v. simple past tense and past participle of roll.
saltation- n. A leap, jump or dance.
- n. Beating or palpitation.
- n. (biology) A sudden change from one generation to the next; a mutation.
- n. Any abrupt transition.
- n. (geology, fluid mechanics) The transport of loose particles by a fluid (such as wind or flowing water).
shackled- adj. Restrained by shackles, chained.
- v. simple past tense and past participle of shackle.
spring- v. To jump or leap.
- v. To pass over by leaping.
- v. To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.
- v. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
- v. To come into being, often quickly or sharply.
- v. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
- v. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.
- v. (nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.
- v. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets,…
- v. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
- v. To fly back.
- v. (intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.
- v. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its…
- v. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
- v. (obsolete) To grow; to prosper.
- v. (architecture, masonry, transitive) To build (an arch).
- v. (transitive, archaic) To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).
- n. A leap; a bound; a jump.
- n. (countable) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants…
- n. (countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September,…
- n. (countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March…
- n. (countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter…
- n. (countable) A place where water emerges from the ground.
- n. (uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched,…
- n. Elastic power or force.
- n. (countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent,…
- n. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- n. (countable) The source of an action or of a supply.
- n. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
- n. That which springs, or is originated, from a source.
- n. (obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
- n. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
- n. (countable, nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa,…
- n. (nautical) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can…
- n. (nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
sure- adj. Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable.
- adj. Certain in one's knowledge or belief.
- adj. Certain to act or be a specified way.
- adj. (obsolete) Free from danger; safe; secure.
- adj. (obsolete) Betrothed; engaged to marry.
- adv. (modal adverb) Without doubt, certainly.
- interj. Yes. (Expresses noncommittal agreement or consent.).
- interj. Yes; of course.
sworn- adj. Given or declared under oath.
- adj. Ardent, devout.
- v. past participle of swear.
tethered- adj. (veterinary) tied, strapped, especially with tethers or hobbles.
- adj. (computing, electronics) connected (especially a mobile phone to a computer, for use as a wireless modem).
- v. simple past tense and past participle of tether.
throttle- n. A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls…
- n. The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
- n. The windpipe or trachea.
- v. (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
- v. (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
- v. (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
- v. (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
- v. (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
tied- adj. Closely connected or associated.
- adj. Restricted.
- adj. Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
- adj. (sports or games) That resulted in a tie.
- adj. Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions…
- adj. (archeology) Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall…
- v. simple past tense and past participle of tie.
trammel- n. Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
- n. A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle.
- n. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
- n. A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang…
- n. A net for confining a woman's hair.
- n. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
- n. (engineering) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves…
- n. A beam compass.
- v. To entangle, as in a net.
- v. (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
treated- v. simple past tense and past participle of treat.
trussed- v. simple past tense and past participle of truss.
unfree- adj. Not free; especially of a tenant who was bound to a manor.
wired- adj. Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment;…
- adj. Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- adj. Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- adj. (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
- adj. (poker slang) A pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down.
- adj. (poker slang) Three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
- adj. (informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
- v. simple past tense and past participle of wire.
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