Someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury.
Confined usually by illness.
1From shut-in recluse mechanic to partying shamanic police detective within a year.
2An agoraphobic shut-in, with no real friends, family, or genuine human contact.
3She hadn't come here determined to be a social shut-in or anything.
4I sought thee in myself, in my own empty shut-in soul.
5In these shut-in retreats the ancient Irish and Roman Catholic element largely prevails.
6I remember the musty, warm, shut-in odour of the front room.
7On down another dry stream bed, many stony descents in a shut-in canyon.
8The block's other wells are either shut-in, or plugged and abandoned.
9My chief pleasure during that shut-in winter was watching those children.
10His hero felt himself likewise on the shelf, shut-in, stuffed, dead-his trumpet silent.
11It felt as if it had been buried alive, in screaming, shut-in despair.
12The wells will remain shut-in until the on-site investigation is completed, the statement said.
13In addition, most shut-in production from Hurricane Isaac had returned to normal this week.
14A moment later, he found himself in the shut-in office of the Managing Editor.
15The Shoes of Swiftness were hardly any use to him in these shut-in places.
16This past winter, I played the role of reluctant shut-in.