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