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束縛する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	束そく縛ばくする	束そく縛ばくしない
Polite	束そく縛ばくします	束そく縛ばくしません
Past polite	束そく縛ばくしました	束そく縛ばくしませんでした
Past	束そく縛ばくした	束そく縛ばくしなかった
Te-form	束そく縛ばくして	束そく縛ばくしないで
Desire	束そく縛ばくしたい	束そく縛ばくしたくない
Potential	束そく縛ばくできる	束そく縛ばくできない
Passive	束そく縛ばくされる	束そく縛ばくされない
Causative	束そく縛ばくさせる	束そく縛ばくさせない
Causative passive	束そく縛ばくさせられる	束そく縛ばくさせられない
Volitional	束そく縛ばくしよう
Polite volitional	束そく縛ばくしましょう
Imperative	束そく縛ばくしろ	束そく縛ばくするな
Conditional	束そく縛ばくすれば	束そく縛ばくしなければ
Tara conditional	束そく縛ばくしたら	束そく縛ばくしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

restraint; restriction; shackles

Abstract or figurative restriction on freedom, action, or thought. Often used for social, psychological, or institutional constraints.

彼かれは親おやの束そく縛ばくから逃のがれたかった。
He wanted to escape from his parents' restraints.
規き則そくが多おおすぎると、自じ由ゆうが束そく縛ばくされる。
Too many rules restrict freedom.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

binding; tying up; confinement with rope

Original, literal meaning: physically binding someone with rope or cord. Now mostly replaced by 縛る in everyday speech, but still understood in historical or formal contexts.

捕とらえた敵てきを束そく縛ばくして連れん行こうした。
They bound the captured enemy and took him away.

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Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉を束そく縛ばくするto restrict/control someone's freedom
彼かれは彼かの女じょを束そく縛ばくしすぎて、関かん係けいが悪わるくなった。
He restricted her freedom too much, and it damaged their relationship.
〈人ひと〉をロープで束そく縛ばくするto physically bind someone with rope
犯はん人にんは被ひ害がい者しゃをロープで束そく縛ばくした。
The culprit bound the victim with rope.
〈事こと〉から束そく縛ばくされるto be bound/restricted by something
彼かの女じょは古ふるい慣かん習しゅうに束そく縛ばくされて生いきてきた。
She has lived her life bound by old customs.
束そく縛ばくから逃のがれるto escape from a restraint/constraint
彼かれはついに家か族ぞくの束そく縛ばくから逃のがれることができた。
He was finally able to escape from his family's control.

Kanji

束bundle, sheaf, ream
縛truss, arrest, bind

Related words· 8

拘こう束そくN1sense 1
拘束 emphasizes formal or legal restraint (e.g. physical detention or contractual obligation), while 束縛 stresses the emotional or psychological feeling of being bound.
縛しばるN3sense 2
縛る is the everyday verb for physically tying something with rope, while 束縛 is the more formal noun used for both literal binding and figurative restriction.
制せい約やくN1sense 1
制約 refers to concrete limits or conditions placed on something, whereas 束縛 highlights the felt loss of freedom that such limits cause.
抑よく圧あつN1sense 1
抑圧 describes suppressing feelings or people through pressure, while 束縛 focuses on limiting someone's freedom or actions.

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制せい限げんN3sense 1
制限 is a neutral term for setting a limit or restriction (e.g. speed limit), while 束縛 carries a stronger sense of oppressive constraint.
締しめ付つけ
束縛 emphasizes restraining someone's freedom or actions, whereas 締め付け focuses on the tightening pressure itself, physical or institutional.
金かな縛しばり
束縛 is a broader word for restriction or restraint (rules, relationships, duties), while 金縛り in its figurative sense specifically evokes being frozen or trapped, as with debt.
囚とらわれ
束縛 emphasizes being restricted or controlled by rules, duty, or relationships, while 囚われ focuses on the state of being trapped, often by one's own thoughts.

Opposites

自じ由ゆうN4sense 1
自由 means freedom or liberty, the direct opposite of the confinement or restriction implied by 束縛.
解かい放ほうN2
束縛 refers to binding or restricting someone's freedom, contrasting with 解放, which means releasing them from such restriction.

Word family

動どう的てき束そく縛ばく
dynamic binding
束そく縛ばく変へん項こう
bound variable
束そく縛ばく理り論ろん
binding theory
束そく縛ばく電でん子し
bound electron
束そく縛ばく継けい承しょう原げん理り
binding inheritance principle; BIP

Etymology

Compound of 束 (bundle, bind) and 縛 (bind, tie). The literal meaning of physical binding is the original sense, with the abstract sense of restraint developing later.