shut-in
adj/ˈʃʌtˌɪn/
Etymology
Deverbal from shut in.
Definitions
Confined to a location, as by infirmity or illness.
A person confined to a location, as by illness or infirmity.
- He visited shut-ins as a good deed.
A narrow river gorge confined by resistant rock layers
A narrow river gorge confined by resistant rock layers; a type of rock formation in which a stream is confined to a narrow bed of resistant stone.
- A shut-in is a geological feature similar to a gorge that “shuts-in” the river.
The neighborhood
- neighborhousebound
- neighborshutup
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for shut-in. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA