Bound
Bound verb - Place limits on (extent or access).
Hold
Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.
How words are described
| good | good bound | good hold |
| single | single bound | single hold |
| small | small bound | small hold |
| powerful | powerful bound | powerful hold |
| Other adjectives: big, little, final, remaining. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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As the Ravenloft setting is bound to eat your average Knight in Shining Armor for breakfast, it's home to quite a few of these instead, striving to hold back the darkness.
Source: Knight in Sour Armor - Unable to hold him in any lesser prison, the gods stitched Oramus' wings together and bound him within himself.
Source: Paradox Person - Later, Mello gets a hold of a magic sword and a special Death Note bound in metal that can even kill Shinigami.
Source: Fan Fic / Gods Of This New World
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Hold and Bound. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bound/hold
Bound & Hold. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/bound/hold>.
Hold or Bound. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bound/hold.
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