Hypernyms for "bound"
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absoluteness
baffle
border
borderline
bounce
bound
bound off
boundary line
bourn
bourne
brink
burst
caper
capriole
carom
city line
clamp down
constrain
county line
crack down
cramp
cumber
curvet
delimitation
demarcation
demarcation line
district line
draw a line
draw the line
edge
encumber
end
fringe
frontier
galumph
gate
hairline
halter
hamper
harness
heat barrier
heliopause
hop
hop-skip
inhibit
kick
kick back
knife-edge
leapfrog
level best
limit
lineation
lower bound
margin
mark off
mark out
maximum
mete
outer boundary
outline
overleap
perimeter
periphery
pounce
pronk
rebound
recoil
reduce
regulate
rein
resile
restrain
reverberate
ricochet
rim
rule
saltate
shore
shoreline
ski jump
skip
skirt
spring
starkness
stiffen
strangle
surface
take a hop
thalweg
thermal barrier
threshold
tie
tighten
tighten up
upper bound
utmost
uttermost
utterness
vault
verge
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.