Title: "Bind" Versus "Bond"
Headings: "Bind" Versus "Bond"
"Bind" Versus "Bond"
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“Bind” Versus “Bond”
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To bind
To bond
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Answering the Question: “Bonded” or “Bound”

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It’s a great question because even though “bond” and “bound” seem as if they are related and actually do have similar meanings, they are separate words with different origins. Also, although Quicnunciac’s question is for a college essay, one wonders whether the talk of “blood bonds” is at least subconsciously motived by the final installment of Stephenie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga, which was just released last week. “Bind” Versus “Bond”
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As an Amazon Associate and a Bookshop.org Affiliate, QDT earns from qualifying purchases. In a physical sense, when you bind something, you are taking two things and tying them together, but that tie can be broken. When you bond something, you are also joining two things, but you are are unifying them, making them much harder to separate. You’d use “bind” to talk about tying branches together to make a wreath, but you’d use “bond” to talk about gluing the whole wreath to a wooden backing. “Bind” has another meaning though—one that conveys the idea of an obligation, oath, or committment—and oftentimes, this word makes more sense when you are talking about personal relationships.