MEANING
Bound or believed destined for hell or damnation.
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- a hellbound soul
- a hellbound journey
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The narrator called the procession hellbound without naming its destination.
She feared that the bargain had made her hellbound.
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: Relational adjective; comparative and superlative normally not used. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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