shut-in

[shuht-in]

adjective

1. confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.

2. Psychiatry.,  disposed to desire solitude; withdrawn; asocial.

3. (of an oil or gas well) temporarily sealed up.

noun

1. a person confined by infirmity or disease to the house, a hospital, etc.

2. Also called shut-in well. an oil or gas well that has been closed down.

shut-in

noun

1. 1. a person confined indoors by illness

   2. ( as modifier )

      a shut-in patient

2. psychiatry a condition in which the person is highly withdrawn and unable to express his own feelings See also schizoid

Word History and Origins

Origin of shut-in¹

1840–50, adj., noun use of verb phrase shut in

Example Sentences

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

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

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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