bound up

Speech parts

1. bound up - Adjective

2. bound up - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

deeply devoted to

closely or inseparably connected or associated with

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Examples

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. George Orwell

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. Horace Mann

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. Desmond Tutu

Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history. Huston Smith

Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated. Iain Banks

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past. Walter Benjamin

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