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Shut-in

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Confined to a location, as by infirmity or illness. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    confined usually by illness wordnet
  2. 2
    somewhat introverted wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A person confined to a location, as by illness or infirmity.

    "He visited shut-ins as a good deed."

  2. 2
    someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Deverbal from shut in.

Etymology 2

Deverbal from shut in.

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