Someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury.
Confined usually by illness.
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Examples for "housebound"
Examples for "housebound"
1There are plenty of housebound activities that you can stay busy with.
2Despite being housebound, she did not make the extremely vulnerable list.
3I am housebound while he is at the forefront, doing all the errands.
4It gave her husband a hacking cough and left her seven-year-old daughter housebound.
5I had been watching period dramas for weeks, housebound and sick.
1The number of homebound elderly was estimated at 421000 in France.
2They decided, however, that newly homebound audiences might embrace a diversion.
3Objectives: To document the degree of symptom burden in an urban homebound population.
4If you have more homebound duties, tough those out earlier in the week.
5Hundreds of homebound commuters on the packed train have had their routine disturbed.
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.