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Claustrophobic

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Suffering from claustrophobia; being scared of being enclosed in a confined space.

    "Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic."

  2. 2
    Cramped and confined, so as to induce claustrophobia.

    "...within the monstrous arrangements of dried flowers on the table-tops, against the Victorian clutter of that claustrophobic room..."

Adjective
  1. 1
    suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places wordnet
  2. 2
    uncomfortably closed or hemmed in wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone with claustrophobia.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From claustrophobia + -ic.

Etymology 2

From claustrophobia + -ic.

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