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View definitions for shut in

shut in

verb as in barricade

Strongest matches

Strong matches

verb as in cage

verb as in corral

Strongest matches

Strong matches

Weak matches

verb as in impound

Strongest matches

Weak matches

verb as in pen

noun as in invalid

noun as in patient

noun as in invalid

noun as in patient

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Example Sentences

Take Hulga, the one-legged shut-in in “Good Country People.”

She may have thought teaching her shut-in son to shoot was therapeutic.

The wool slippers in her work-basket she had finished to-day for a Shut-In birthday gift next month.

The thoughts awakened by the sight of the shut-in girls were not happy ones.

Mrs. Wood was diving into a partly shut-in place, where it was not so light, and where the nests were.

They filled the shut-in room with their vile humming; they swarmed everywhere in the half light.

This may sound very foolish, as I know that writers have many letters from the public, but we shut-in people have moods.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shut-in, such as: consumptive, convalescent, incurable, patient, and sufferer.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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