Definition of "water-bound" [wa•ter-bound]

• Prevented by a flood from proceeding. (adjective)

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• "However, the documented sighting of a plesiosaur, a water-bound creature, in 1923 made cryptozoologist believe that the specimen of these monsters existed in the lake at least 200 years ago."
• "Take Price Billiot, 63, who runs a seafood dock in Pointe-Aux-Chenes, a dilapidated and water-bound town that stretches along a bayou in the tall marshes near Montegut."
• "They're water-bound hellzones, natural refuges for the forces of pain, deception, and death."