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chairbound

British  
/ ˈtʃɛəˌbaʊnd /

adjective

  1. social welfare unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Growing legions of chairbound executives labor through pushups on the bedroom floor at dawn, or spend their lunch hours performing similar strenuous rituals in a gym.

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No amount of professional proficiency alone enables a musical to take wing and make a chairbound audience irresistibly airborne.

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He had a vision of Messala, chairbound like Simonides, and, like him, going abroad on the shoulders of servants.

From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis

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