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bound up with someone or something

deeply concerned or involved with someone or something. He's so bound up with his work, he has time for nothing else. Andrew is bound up with his girlfriend and has time for no one else.

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bound up with something

to be connected to something else The secretary pointed out that US security is absolutely bound up with the security of Europe.

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