shut-in

See also: shut in

English

Etymology

Deverbal from shut in.

Adjective

shut-in (not comparable)

1. Confined to a location, as by infirmity or illness.

Noun

shut-in (plural shut-ins)

1. A person confined to a location, as by illness or infirmity.

   He visited shut-ins as a good deed.

2. A type of rock formation in which a stream is confined to a narrow bed of resistant stone.
   • 2024 January 16 (last accessed), Missouri Department of Natural Resources, “Swimming at Johnson's Shut-ins State Park”, in Missouri State Parks‎^[1]:

     A shut-in is a geological feature similar to a gorge that “shuts-in” the river.

See also

• housebound

Anagrams

• unshit