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Meanings of bound up in English

Deeply devoted to.

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Usage of bound up in English
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There was a certain danger bound up in his success, he reflected.
In Enemy Hands
2
The women reaped the Corn, and the men bound up the sheaves.
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
3
Yet Xi's western gambit is arguably bound up in a basic contradiction.
The Guardian
4
Through ties of family or history, they are bound up with it.
The Guardian
5
Both clubs are also bound up with the idea of a nation.
The Guardian
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The concepts Nature and Art were intimately bound up in his mind.
Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
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I did not see it was bound up in a handkerchief before.
For Fortune and Glory: A Story of the Soudan War
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The food question is intimately bound up with the question of industry.
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
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Nearly all had their heads and hands bound up in filthy dressings.
My War Experiences in Two Continents
10
Captain Blastblow knows that the party are bound up the Mississippi River.
Up the River; or, Yachting on the Mississippi
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For he saw that her heart was really bound up in him.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 / A Maga...
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Every good thought he ever had was bound up in your mother.
The Man in the Twilight
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The whole universe, bound up in desire, is revolving like a wheel.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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They loved one another, and his soul was bound up in hers.
The Book of Delight and Other Papers
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I bound up three of the wounds which thou didst give him.
Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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All the so-called lower senses are bound up with instincts and actions.
The Principles of Aesthetics
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Bound up through the time
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United Kingdom
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Ireland
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United States of America
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