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phrasebe bound up with
be bound up in/with sth to be so involved in a particular situation that you cannot think of anything else: Joanna's too bound up in her own problems to be able to help us at the moment.■ SIMILAR TO: be wrapped up in
be bound up with sth to be closely connected with a particular idea, activity, situation etc: The history of the mill is closely bound up with that of the Williams family, who owned it from 1840-1947. Religion and morality are inescapably bound up with one another.
be bound up with sth to be closely connected with a particular problem, situation etc: Mark's problems are all bound up with his mother's death when he was ten. The people of Transkei began to realize that their future was inseparably bound up with that of South Africa.
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