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upbind en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ʌpˈbaɪnd/

Etymology

Etymology tree English up- Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *bindaną Proto-West Germanic *bindan Old English bindan Middle English binden English bind English upbind From up- + bind.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, poetic, transitive) To bind up.
   • But when the night cast up her shade aloft, / And all earth's colors strange in sable dy'd, / He light, and as he could his wounds upbound, / And shook ripe dates down from a palm he found. 1600, Edward Fairfax, Torquato Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne, or Jerusalem Delivered, Book X Stanza V:
   • All these the daughters of old Nereus were, / Which have the sea in charge to them assign'd, / To rule his tides, and surges to uprear, / To bring forth storms, or fast them to upbind, / And sailors save from wrecks of wrathful wind. 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, published 1758, Canto XLI, page 149:
   • 1834, William Sotheby, translator, Homer, Iliad, Book 18, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, volume 2, Nicol, page 223, The reapers toil'd, the sickles in their hand, / Heap after heap fell thick along the land; / Three labourers grasp them, and in sheaves upbind; / Boys, gathering up their handfuls, went behind, / Proffering their load:

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