snowbound

[ snoh-bound ]

adjective
  1. shut in or immobilized by snow.

Origin of snowbound

1
First recorded in 1805–15; snow + -bound1

Words Nearby snowbound

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How to use snowbound in a sentence

  • Becoming snowbound they took refuge in a springy opening at the bottom of a forested slope.

    Watched by Wild Animals | Enos A. Mills
  • It was like an experience of reading snowbound in Whittier's old home.

    Revisiting the Earth | James Langdon Hill

British Dictionary definitions for snowbound

snowbound

/ (ˈsnəʊˌbaʊnd) /


adjective
  1. confined to one place by heavy falls or drifts of snow; snowed-in

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