shut-in

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English

A panorama of Johnson's Shut-In.

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 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.
    • 2024 January 16 (last accessed), Missouri Department of Natural Resources, “Swimming at Johnson's Shut-ins State Park”, in Missouri State Parks‎:
      A shut-in is a geological feature similar to a gorge that “shuts-in” the river.

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