Synonyms for bounding

Grammar : Verb

Spell : bound

Phonetic Transcription : baʊnd

Top 10 synonyms for bounding

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Définition of bounding

Origin : "to leap," 1580s, from French bondir "to rebound, resound, echo," from Old French bondir "to leap, rebound; make a noise, beat (a drum)," 13c., ultimately "to echo back," from Vulgar Latin *bombitire "to buzz, hum" (see bomb (n.)), perhaps on model of Old French tentir, from Vulgar Latin *tinnitire.

verb jump, bounce
verb restrict

Example sentences :

Before him was bounding the faint patch of white he had discovered.
Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

Can you eat an unskinned hare, or dine on the haunch of a bounding stag?
Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli

Her step, once bounding and elastic, became slow and uncertain.
Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever

Footsteps sounded from the hall; quick, bounding, they passed her door.
Extract from : « Highacres » by Jane Abbott

With such pedigree, why should not this bounding thoroughbred win the Derby?
Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee

Meanwhile Prince Ivan was running and bounding behind the carriage.
Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston

Presently it was opened—not to let me out, but to let the dog in—yelping and bounding.
Extract from : « At the Back of the North Wind » by George MacDonald

"We do," announced Hi Martin, bounding over in front of Teall.
Extract from : « The Grammar School Boys of Gridley » by H. Irving Hancock

There was a bounding step on the piazza, a ring at the bell.
Extract from : « Warrior Gap » by Charles King

Maurice, too, he had seen, full of the joy of youth and of bounding health.
Extract from : « The Call of the Blood » by Robert Smythe Hichens

Antonyms for bounding

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