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Shut-in   /ʃət-ɪn/   Listen
Shut-in

noun
1.
Someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury.  Synonym: invalid.






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"Shut-in" Quotes from Famous Books



... exciting in this remote place, and the shut-in feeling of its situation, enclosed by hills and with no outlook, sometimes made the sick man impatient, yet his health improved and he was even able to take part in outdoor sports, such as tobogganing. ...
— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

... been one of a glorious company. One of that great flock which had winged its exalted flight to France. Throughout the story Randy wove the theme of the big white bird in the glass case. His hero felt himself likewise on the shelf, shut-in, stuffed, dead—his ...
— The Trumpeter Swan • Temple Bailey

... The shut-in dinginess of Digby Street, the gloomy aspect of Shamrock House, cast such a chill across Joan's spirits that, as she stood hesitating with her hand on the bell, the instinct came to her to scramble back into the cab and tell the ...
— To Love • Margaret Peterson

... lay the wide stretch of plain in which Dry Town was set; about him were the small shut-in valleys where the "little fellows" had their holdings and small herds of long horns and saddle ponies. Before him were the mountains with Kemble's place upon their far slope and his own home range lying still farther to the east. There were many streams to ford ...
— Six Feet Four • Jackson Gregory

... Shut-in and Stagnant Air is Foul. This restless air-gas cannot be stored outside of the body, any better than it can be inside. For one thing, it is too bulky; and for another, it begins to become impure in various ways, as soon as it is shut up. It ...
— A Handbook of Health • Woods Hutchinson

... "What a dull, shut-in place! I think the name of Friary suits it exactly," observed Nan, disconsolately, as they went up the little flagged path, bordered with lilac-bushes. "It feels like a miniature convent or prison: we might have a grating in the door, and ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey



Words linked to "Shut-in" :   confined, sick person, sufferer, introvertive, introvertish, invalid, diseased person, introversive



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