shut-in
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See also: shut in
Etymology
Adjective
shut-in (not comparable)
Noun
- 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 type of rock formation in which a stream is confined to a narrow bed of resistant stone.
See also
- housebound
- (geology:) shutup
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