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Definition of bound : 1. A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
2. Constipated; costive.
3. Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; - followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
4. imp. & p. p. of Bind.
5. Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
6. of Bind
7. Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; - with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.
8. Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
9. Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
10. Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
11. Spring from one foot to the other.
12. The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
13. To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
14. To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; - said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
15. To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
16. To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
17. To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
18. To rebound, as an elastic ball.
19. Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.

Synonyms:

intent, environ, jump-start, strangulate, pass over, point of accumulation, beach, margin, natural spring, outflow, articled, rebound, demarcation line, kettle, determine, purposeful, dance, in bonds, sharpness, kick, cringe, resile, set, alternate, sure, throttle, well-bound, probably, under guard, take a hop, bank, in thrall to, abut, bear fruit, half-bound, loose-leaf, develop, reverberate, derail, furled, stranded, leaping, envelop, jounce, come off, indentured, keep, rise, coast, marooned, bounden, encyclopedic, range, bounds, take off, ricochet, fountain, limitation, confine, work, retract, brink, specify, butt, apprenticed, curb, startle, stand out, form, conjugate, butt on, rally, single-minded, demarcation, shape up, dancing, out, destined, strangle, running jump, approach, cut back, rolled, cumber, jump off, control, terpsichore, resolute, trammel, jump out, march, fix, treated, encumber, constipated, quail, recoil, sworn, do-or-die, parachute, committed, cased, trussed, flip, obliged, qualify, curtail, made, flying tackle, pledged, wince, reliant, enclose, enchained, obligation, frame, take form, restraint, beholden, hem in, muzzled, pop-up, funk, fiction, abjure, roped, confines, take shape, backfire, hold back, guaranteed, wired, climb up, bounciness, bouncing, answerable, bookends, encyclopaedic, expected, possibly, constrain, paperback, free, circumscribe, surround, brim, skirt, dive, encircle, work out, orientated, under someone's control/influence/spell, ensnare, paperbacked, echo, independent, flinch, give, chute, terminal point, resolved, boundary, function, marge, oriented, forced, strand, unconstrained, butt against, skip over, check, indebted, kick back, jumpstart, conjugated, bookrest, in fetters, snare, backlash, keep back, bandaged, recant, hold in, move, springtime, forswear, fly, detain, stick out, subject to something, contain, in chains, bent, squinch, resound, start, brassbound, entrap, pinioned, bounce, hardbound, firm, limit point, reflect, bookmark, choke, trap, unrestrained, decisive, define, constraint, hold, driven, probable, saltation, prosper, springiness, intimidate, leap out, captive, shrink, under obligation, good, frame in, adjoin, outpouring, certain, terminus ad quem, fettered, shore, hell-bent, obligate, restriction, engulf, likely

fused, conformed, integrated, solidified, stuck together, cohered

embellished, annexed, affixed, bonded, abutted, juxtaposed, subscripted, clung, attached, fastened, merged, prefixed, stuck, joined, accompanied, coupled, extended, wedded, hitched, extra, augmented, added, married, related, connected, spliced, suffixed, additional, adhered

restrain, end, terminate, restrict

clinched, zipped, bracketed, cemented, weaved, linked, sewn spliced, hinged, sutured, laced, tethered, chained, pasted, glued, braided, stayed, plaited, strapped, stringed, tied, stitched, knotted, welded, buckled, lashed, woven

mandated, constrained, obligated, required, stipulated, compelled

restricted, limited, rimmed, terminated, ended, restrained, edged, bordered

junior, dependent, subjugated, subjected, enslaved, deferent, subordinate, subject, subservient, supine, under, unfranchised, enthralled, servile, obedient, compliant, submissive

constricted, collared, leashed, detained, inhibited, hindered, confined, impeded, controlled, bridled, shackled

knit, closed, threaded, strung

fringe, border, rim, limit, outline, ring, contour, edge, trace

lope, hurry, scurry, scoot, scamper, dart, race, canter, jog, plunge, tear, rush, run, dash, trot, scramble, sprint, gallop

subordinated

jump, capriole, skip, leap, pounce, spring, hop, hurdle, vault

purled, quilted, backstitched, buttonholed, embroidered, basted, knitted, cross-stitched, chain-stitched, sewed, crocheted, sewn, tacked, seamed

Usage examples:

• If Bill did not return, they were bound in honor to go after him; and, if possible, find out what had become of him. - "The Boy Slaves", Mayne Reid.
• I think you are bound to do it, you know. - "An Old Man's Love", Anthony Trollope.
• Neither, I am bound to tell you, has Mrs. Dampier. - "The End of Her Honeymoon", Marie Belloc Lowndes.