(AmE) a person who cannot leave their home very easily because they are ill/sick or DISABLED:
He worked as a volunteer, delivering hot meals to shut-ins.
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for shut-in is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is shut-in a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, shut-in is tagged as noun.
Does shut-in appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — shut-in appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
