shut-in
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7.9
- noun
- /ˈʃʌtˌɪn/
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confinado en su domicilio
- You can be a shut in and do nothing or you can do what it is that you're here to do and share your gifts and try to do good and let the chips fall as they may.
- elderly shut-ins
- meals to shut-ins
- deliver meals to shut-ins
Examples
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Also, during high school, I boxed and delivered groceries to shut-ins in a small town for $5 on Saturday mornings—$3.64 after taxes.
Blog text (27) -
He was running groceries to widows and shut-ins out among the islands, stern and charitable with his yellow Labrador braced against his legs, her nose raised in the slapping air.
Fiction book (1996) -
Then again, since my folks are paranoid shut-ins like me... ...maybe this girl could bring me home to her folks.
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Each of the latter supported only a handful of people, a few individual elderly shut-ins.
Fiction book (2002) -
Ben had been gone a year, too long to be part of it, and Gretchen had been a virtual shut-in since his death.
Fiction book (2002) -
For example, EMHCs still have the role of bringing communion to the sick and shut-ins.
Blog text (31) -
Meals will be delivered on Thanksgiving Day to shut-ins, the elderly, the homebound, and those in need of a meal.
Blog text (21) -
And, like most elderly shut-ins in the Big Easy, Clara had no phone, no transportation, no doctor or clinic, and no accessible pharmacy.
Academic text (2006) -
When the lady whose job it is to take communion to the sick and shut-ins of the parish decides to visit her niece in Florida for the winter, the priest asks Angela to take her place.
Fiction book (1997) -
Many shut-ins rely on volunteers to bring them food and supplies.
Synonyms
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6.7
People who cannot leave their homes because they are ill or disabled
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Morphology
Etymology
Shut-in comes from the simple parts shut ('closed') and in ('inside'), like being kept behind a closed door; it names a person who cannot leave their home or bed because of a long illness or injury, so they rarely go out.