Bound and Contain

Bound

Bound verb - Place limits on (extent or access).

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Contain and bound are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Contain" instead a verb "Bound".

Contain verb - To have within.

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Bound and contain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bound" instead a verb "Contain".

Nearby Words: container, containing, containment, containable

soul	bound soul	contain soul
spirit	bound spirit	contain spirit
power	bound power	contain power
people	bound people	contain people
Other words: parts, characters, bit, books, powers, souls, memories.

Anachronism Stew: Like Caprica, it's bound to contain shades of this, with fashions and hair styles so far reminiscent of the Vietnam War.

Source: Series / Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough: this earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.

Source: Theatre / Henry IV Part 1
No chain would actually have bound Loki, but what is actually binding Loki is not the chains, or the fact that they were made from the intestines of a god, but rather that the chains contain an insubstantial ingredient: the bond between father and son, something that not even a god can break.

Source: Insubstantial Ingredients

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