hold in,
enclose,
confine surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence"
border on,
approach come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character; "This borders on discrimination!"; "His playing approaches that of Horowitz"
skirt pass around or about; move along the border; "The boat skirted the coast"
verge border on; come close to; "His behavior verges on the criminal"
shore serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees"
Bound -
move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"
bound -
held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
free not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"
chemical science,
chemistry the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions
natural philosophy,
physics the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics"
conjugated,
conjugate of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond
bound -
(usually followed by `to') governed by fate; "bound to happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is destined to be famous"
bound -
confined in the bowels; "he is bound in the belly"
bound -
headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'; "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New York"