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