Definitions for shut-in

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Spelling: [shuht-in]
IPA: /ˈʃʌtˌɪn/

Shut-In is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in shut-in (-hinstu).

Definitions for shut-in

noun

  1. a person confined by infirmity or disease to the house, a hospital, etc.
  2. Also called shut-in well. an oil or gas well that has been closed down.

adjective

  1. confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
  2. Psychiatry. disposed to desire solitude; withdrawn; asocial.
  3. (of an oil or gas well) temporarily sealed up.

Origin of shut-in

1840-50, Americanism; adj., noun use of verb phrase shut in

Examples for shut-in

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

And she had a shut-in friend, to whom I must write, of course.

It might have seemed an echo, only there was no place for an echo in this shut-in spot.

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

Through clefts in our shut-in way we could see snow on the mountains.

It's only in books that a shut-in is 32 angelic all the time!

Uncle Darcy is out again with it, after his long, shut-in winter.

He could not content himself, however, in this shut-in country.

Ive just come back from Alaska, and it seems so shut-in there.

For the men of this country are accustomed to call a narrow, shut-in pass "alps."

Word Value for shut-in
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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