shut-in
confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
Psychiatry. disposed to desire solitude; withdrawn; asocial.
(of an oil or gas well) temporarily sealed up.
a person confined by infirmity or disease to the house, a hospital, etc.
Also called shut-in well . an oil or gas well that has been closed down.
Origin of shut-in
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How to use shut-in in a sentence
Take Hulga, the one-legged shut-in in “Good Country People.”
She may have thought teaching her shut-in son to shoot was therapeutic.
Nancy Lanza Was Deluded to Keep Guns at Home With Troubled Adam | Michael Daly | December 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe wool slippers in her work-basket she had finished to-day for a shut-in birthday gift next month.
Growing Up | Jennie M. DrinkwaterThe thoughts awakened by the sight of the shut-in girls were not happy ones.
Patchwork | Anna Balmer MyersMrs. Wood was diving into a partly shut-in place, where it was not so light, and where the nests were.
Beautiful Joe | Marshall Saunders
They filled the shut-in room with their vile humming; they swarmed everywhere in the half light.
The Escape of Mr. Trimm | Irvin S. CobbThis may sound very foolish, as I know that writers have many letters from the public, but we shut-in people have moods.
Mavis of Green Hill | Faith Baldwin
British Dictionary definitions for shut-in
mainly US and Canadian
a person confined indoors by illness
(as modifier): a shut-in patient
psychiatry a condition in which the person is highly withdrawn and unable to express his own feelings: See also schizoid
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