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pind

/pɪnd/

pind verb: to impound (as cattle), to shut up in a pound.

Verb

pind (third-person singular simple present pinds, present participle pinding, simple past and past participle pinded)

  1. (archaic, dialectal, transitive) To impound (as cattle), to shut up in a pound.
  2. (Northern England, transitive) To confine within narrow limits, constrain.

pind meaning in Hindi

pind in Hindi

pind
पिंड piṇḍ

Forms of pind

third-person singular presentpinds
present participlepinding
past participlepinded
pastpinded
alternative Yorkshirepin
alternative Scotlandpynd
alternative Scotlandpeynd

Origin of pind

From Middle English pinden, penden, punden (also as poynen), from Old English *pyndan, ġepyndan (“to impound, shut up, inclose”), from Proto-West Germanic *pundijan (“to impound”). Doublet of poind. Related also to pond.

Words formed from pind

Questions about pind

What does pind mean?
Pind means to impound (as cattle), to shut up in a pound.
What is pind in Hindi?
Pind in Hindi is पिंड (piṇḍ). See Pind meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pind?
Pind is a verb.
How do you pronounce pind?
Pind is pronounced /pɪnd/.
What is the past tense of pind?
The past tense of pind is pinded.

Words near pind in the dictionary

  1. pincushion dolls
  2. pincushioned
  3. pincushioning
  4. pincushions
  5. pincushiony
  6. pind
  7. pinda
  8. pindal
  9. pindals
  10. pindan
  11. pindar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pind (page history and authors); पिंड (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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