bound-up

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Wladislaw Spzilman plays part of Chopin's Nocturne in C Sharp Minor To meddle with the heart of a man so bound-up with the struggles for Poland would, for many Poles, be sacrilegious.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2014

The failure is bound-up with the erosion of the filtering function of the media and its increasing inability to marshal and synchronize popular taste around particular artists or phenomena.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2011

Get in there and help him get out and make a new friend-you might be the stranded rider next time with no tow strap or a bound-up or broken winch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite the bound-up magic curled inside her, safe and sound for now, she was still the same girl.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Some shrouded all in white with bound-up mouths; some naked and black as ebony in the strong light; and one—that lay face upwards with dropped jaw, far away from the others—silvery white and ashen gray.

From Life's Handicap by Kipling, Rudyard