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Yes, bind is playable

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"Bind" Definition

noun

A place where something binds: a bind halfway up the seam of the skirt.
Informal A difficult, restrictive, or unresolvable situation: found themselves in a bind when their car broke down.
Music A tie, slur, or brace.
Something that binds.
The act of binding.

phrasal-verb

Bind off To cast off in knitting.
Bind over Law To hold on bail or place under bond.

verb-intransitive

Chemistry To combine chemically or form a chemical bond.
To be compelling or unifying: the ties that bind.
To be uncomfortably tight or restricting, as clothes.
To become compact or solid; cohere.
To stick or become stuck: applied a lubricant to keep the moving parts from binding.

verb-transitive

Chemistry To combine with, form a chemical bond with, or be taken up by, as an enzyme with its substrate.
Law To place under legal obligation by contract or oath.
To apprentice or indenture: was bound out as a servant.
To bandage: bound up their wounds.
To cause to cohere or stick together in a mass: Bind the dry ingredients with milk and eggs.

verb

To make secure by tying.
To confine, restrain, or restrict as if with bonds.
To put under an obligation .
To constrain with legal authority.
To wrap around with something so as to enclose or cover.

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