shut-in
Americanadjective
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confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
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Psychiatry. disposed to desire solitude; withdrawn; asocial.
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(of an oil or gas well) temporarily sealed up.
noun
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a person confined by infirmity or disease to the house, a hospital, etc.
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Also called shut-in well. an oil or gas well that has been closed down.
noun
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a person confined indoors by illness
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( as modifier )
a shut-in patient
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psychiatry a condition in which the person is highly withdrawn and unable to express his own feelings See also schizoid
Etymology
Origin of shut-in
1840–50, adj., noun use of verb phrase shut in
Example Sentences
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“There is plenty of oil on the global market, and a shut-in of Venezuelan production, however unlikely, is not going to cause a supply shortage anytime soon,” Mizuho’s Robert Yawger says in a note.
The units, situated 5 to 9 miles from Santa Barbara County’s coastline, were shut-in after a corroded pipeline released nearly 3,000 barrels of oil in 2015.
There are even flashes of Grace, the lonely shut-in mother of two in “The Others,” whose belief that her house is haunted causes her slow descent into madness.
From Salon
He was so brimming with unpredictability and anger, he told me, that by the time the pandemic hit, he was basically a shut-in anyway — for the safety of others.
From Los Angeles Times
Canada's Vermilion Energy Inc on Monday lowered its current quarter production outlook due to a shut-in caused by the wildfires in West Central Alberta.
From Reuters
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