Closely or inseparably connected or associated with; "his career is bound up with the fortunes of the enterprise"
Adjective S.
deeply devoted to; "bound up in her teaching"; "is wrapped up in his family"
Adjective S.
closely or inseparably connected or associated with; "his career is bound up with the fortunes of the enterprise"
Usage Examples
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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.
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Other Usage ExamplesAs a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.