Certain or very likely to do something; or tied and unable to move freely.
From Old French “bond” or “band,” meaning “tie, fetter,” related to “bind.” The idea of being tied led to figurative senses like being “bound” for a place or “bound” to do something.
Being “homeward bound” and being “hand and foot bound” share the same root idea: something is tying your direction. The word quietly suggests that forces—ropes or destiny—are steering what happens next.
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