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Meanings of homebound in inglés

Confined usually by illness.

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Examples for "housebound"
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There are plenty of housebound activities that you can stay busy with.
News.com.au
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Despite being housebound, she did not make the extremely vulnerable list.
The Guardian
3
I am housebound while he is at the forefront, doing all the errands.
The South African
4
It gave her husband a hacking cough and left her seven-year-old daughter housebound.
The Guardian
5
I had been watching period dramas for weeks, housebound and sick.
Independent.ie
1
From shut-in recluse mechanic to partying shamanic police detective within a year.
Walking dead
2
An agoraphobic shut-in, with no real friends, family, or genuine human contact.
Ready Player One
3
She hadn't come here determined to be a social shut-in or anything.
Here comes trouble
4
I sought thee in myself, in my own empty shut-in soul.
Jean-Christophe Journey's End
5
In these shut-in retreats the ancient Irish and Roman Catholic element largely prevails.
A Child of the Glens; or, Elsie's Fortunes
Usage of homebound in inglés
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The number of homebound elderly was estimated at 421000 in France.
Pubmed
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They decided, however, that newly homebound audiences might embrace a diversion.
Reuters
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Objectives: To document the degree of symptom burden in an urban homebound population.
Pubmed
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If you have more homebound duties, tough those out earlier in the week.
Ebony
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Hundreds of homebound commuters on the packed train have had their routine disturbed.
The Irish Times
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The delivery of meals to homebound seniors who would otherwise starve.
Ebony
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Doctors Without Borders is using a small team of physicians to visit homebound patients.
Reuters
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Some of those we think of as most intrepid were in fact most homebound.
The new yorker
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FOGO Shares of several companies that cater to homebound consumers have been resilient this year.
Reuters
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But she also felt reproved for her homebound boredom.
Atonement
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There was more than the homebound tour that had been planned and laid out for me.
A Minstrel in France
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So did Felix, 56, who had been mostly homebound as he recovered from heart bypass surgery.
Reuters
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Israel was throttling back for the sleepy sabbath weekend, and the freeways were humming with homebound traffic.
Reuters
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Suddenly my energetic, on-the-go father was homebound.
This child will be great
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Unless they met with a friendly homebound vessel, the letter was likely to be put ashore in Antigua.
For my Country’s Freedom
16
Mkhize revealed that four South Africans were barred from entering the homebound plane after they displayed worrying symptoms.
The South African
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