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Meaning of shut-in | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

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

Examples

“He visited shut-ins as a good deed.”
“A shut-in is a geological feature similar to a gorge that “shuts-in” the river.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

shut-off Shutdown Shutdowns shute Shuteye shutin

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