bounds

/ (baʊndz) /


pl n
  1. (sometimes singular) a limit; boundary (esp in the phrase know no bounds)

  2. something that restrains or confines, esp the standards of a society: within the bounds of modesty

  1. beat the bounds See beat (def. 26)

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