Meaning of shut-in | Babel Free
Definitions
- A person confined to a location, as by illness or infirmity.
- 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.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.