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hidebound

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈhaɪd.baʊnd/Part of speech adjectiveSorted bddehinouStarts with HEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded

Word origin

From hide (“animal skin”, noun) + bound (“tied”, adjective).

Used in a sentence

  • Open the box in which his large hidebound book is kept. The faint smell of manure, over 150 years old, still rises from thick yellowing pages, and you begin to live his life.
  • But no matter where their place of residence, they were always accompanied by the hidebound chest that held the family papers.
  • Some of the horses were looking hidebound, and I promised the sergeant that I'd buy a couple of hundredweight of linseed for them when I went on leave. Linseed was a cosy idea; it reminded me of peacetime conditions.

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