shut-in

短语
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n. 被关在屋内的人 a. 被关在屋内的, 诡密的, 被围在中间的

词形变化

shut-ins 复数 shut-ins

别名

shutin

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    He visited shut-ins as a good deed.

  2. 2.

    A narrow river gorge confined by resistant rock layers; a type of rock formation in which a stream is confined to a narrow bed of resistant stone.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Confined to a location, as by infirmity or illness.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

invalid

上位词 2

sufferer sick person
形容词

同义词 3

homebound housebound introvertish

近义相关 3

confined introversive introvertive

词源

Deverbal from shut in.

来源：wiktionary