stormbound

American

[stawrm-bound] / ˈstɔrmˌbaʊnd /

adjective

confined, detained, or isolated by storms.

a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.

stormbound British

/ ˈstɔːmˌbaʊnd /

adjective

detained or harassed by storms

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Etymology

Origin of stormbound

First recorded in 1820–30; storm + -bound ¹

Example Sentences

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The snowstorm proved such a heavy one that for three days the party at Professor Jeffer’s cabin were completely stormbound.

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On the 5th, imagine him at Dover with an equipage of five hundred persons shivering on the brink of the Channel, and stormbound there for fourteen days at a cost of 14,000 crowns.

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The travellers to the gold regions were stormbound at Lake Labarge for two days.

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But I don’t think the train will be stormbound.

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Their journey from the cache on the Great Lake to their present position had consumed a month, including a period of one week when they were stormbound.

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