bind up

To wrap something up tight to hold it together or protect it, or to be closely connected to something.

"The nurse bound up his injured knee before helping him to hobble to the first-aid room."

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Sawing a Dam in Half (on Purpose)

Practical Engineering · 6:02

the movement was also causing the spillway gates to bind up.

Stuff Made Here breaks down Automatic Bow

Stuff Made Here 2 · 15:08

to will distort and then they'll start to bind up

Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee | Lex Fridman Podcast #499

Lex Fridman · 50:32

let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds,

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