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bind oneself

VERB

guarantee

Synonyms

STRONGEST

assure ensure insure maintain protect prove secure support

STRONG

affirm angel attest aver back bankroll certify confirm cosign endorse evidence evince grubstake guaranty juice mortgage reassure stake swear testify wager warrant witness

WEAK

answer for be surety for get behind give bond make bail make certain make sure pick up the check pick up the tab sign for stand behind stand up for vouch for

Antonyms

STRONGEST

harm hurt injure let go neglect

STRONG

contradict deny discourage disprove invalidate oppose refute reject repudiate veto

WEAK

break

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It is so provincial to bind oneself to views which are no longer binding a couple of hundred miles away.

From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

"But to promise to abjure under condition of being set free, is to bind oneself to abjure," answered Joan, disconcerted by the canon's sophism.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

What folly, then, to say that it is unlawful to bind oneself by promises of this kind, since it is lawful to be good—the only thing that is lawful!

From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by Stapleton, John H. (John Henry)

But it is not policy to bind oneself too closely to detail.

From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

To hold material things either in community or severalty was in either case to bind oneself to the evil principle.

From Mediaeval Socialism by Jarrett, Bede

bind oneself

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