Binding and Hold

Binding

Binding noun - The capacity to attract and hold something.

Hold is a synonym for binding. In some cases you can use "Hold" instead the word "Binding" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: bind, binder, bindery

Hold

Hold noun - The act or manner of holding.

Binding is a synonym for hold. Sometimes you can use "Binding" instead a noun "Hold".

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / Cheers On learning that the other party plans to hold him to that bet (and has a binding contract), he reads over the terms of the bet and realises that it doesn't specify Jacqueline Bisset the actress.
  • Rather than 'romantic' love, she aims for 'parental' affection, but it's no less binding, and she's perfectly ruthless about it, going so far as to be incarnated as Sparhawk's biological daughter, just so she'd have a stronger hold over him.
    Source: Love Hungry
  • Lets Play / Northernlion And, particularly in his Binding of Isaac Challenge runs, whenever he mentions doing something that does not hold to that episode's challenge rules, it's "against the spirit of the challenge".
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