bound-up

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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

I'm bound-up in the prosperity of the country, and if the ship is wrecked, it ruins my fortune, but not me, unless I'm bound-up in myself.

From Diana of the Crossways — Complete by Meredith, George