Antonyms for bind

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : bahynd

Phonetic Transcription : baɪnd

Definition of bind

Origin : Old English bindan "to tie up with bonds" (literally and figuratively), also "to make captive; to cover with dressings and bandages" (class III strong verb; past tense band, past participle bunden), from Proto-Germanic *bindan (cf. Old Saxon bindan, Old Norse and Old Frisian binda, Old High German binten "to bind," German binden, Gothic bindan), from PIE root *bhendh- "to bind" (see bend). Intransitive sense of "stick together" is from 1670s. Of books, from c.1400.

noun predicament
verb fasten, secure
verb obligate; restrict

Example sentences :

Well, then, be it so; but loving me does not bind you too much.
Extract from : « The Black Tulip » by Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

Unfortunately, it does not bind me more than I am bound; but it binds you, Rosa, you.
Extract from : « The Black Tulip » by Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

Bind me over again to my good behaviour you may, by a single word.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

The people who matter to us are the people who rest us—and calm us—and bind up our wounds.
Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

We cannot break the links which bind the individual to the race.
Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley

That message, and the wearing of the rings, are all that now bind me and the Queen of Ruritania.
Extract from : « The Prisoner of Zenda » by Anthony Hope

Of which the former are differences that bind, and the latter that separate.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin

Now that she did meet him she discovered that he held no bonds with which to bind her.
Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker

In other words, you bind for the sake of loosening, when a good bait is on the hook, do you not?
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

For the fetters which bind us can not be shaken off, before the conscience is emancipated.
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

Synonyms for bind

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