Cabined

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of cabin form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Confined at close quarters not-comparable

    "He did not realise that there was nothing personal in this aloofness, except in so far as he personified a larger life, whose hopeful outlook stirred in more cabined natures an unacknowledged resentment."

  2. 2
    Circumscribed; restricted; having a narrow scope not-comparable

Example

More examples

"He did not realise that there was nothing personal in this aloofness, except in so far as he personified a larger life, whose hopeful outlook stirred in more cabined natures an unacknowledged resentment."

Etymology

From cabin + -ed.

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