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bound-up

ADJECTIVE

immersed

Synonyms

STRONG

absorbed buried busy consumed engaged engrossed mesmerized occupied preoccupied spellbound

WEAK

deep eat, sleep, and breathe intent into rapt taken up tied-up turned on wrapped-up

Antonyms

STRONG

bored disinterested idle inactive uninterested unoccupied

WEAK

ignorant neglectful negligent

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Wladislaw Spzilman plays part of Chopin's Nocturne in C Sharp Minor To meddle with the heart of a man so bound-up with the struggles for Poland would, for many Poles, be sacrilegious.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2014

The failure is bound-up with the erosion of the filtering function of the media and its increasing inability to marshal and synchronize popular taste around particular artists or phenomena.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2011

Get in there and help him get out and make a new friend-you might be the stranded rider next time with no tow strap or a bound-up or broken winch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite the bound-up magic curled inside her, safe and sound for now, she was still the same girl.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

But we must not fail to note carefully that we to-day are enabled to use this immense new power of bound-up solar energy and time by a human invention, a product of the dead.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred

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