shut-in
关闭的,被关闭的,被关在里面,被关入
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Definitions
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- : confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- : Psychiatry. disposed to desire solitude; withdrawn; asocial.
- : temporarily sealed up.
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- : a person confined by infirmity or disease to the house, a hospital, etc.
- : Also called shut-in well . an oil or gas well that has been closed down.
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Examples
This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.
Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”
The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
But those weapons are of limited utility, especially during close-in fights.
Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.
After his death crowds flocked to his grave to touch his holy monument, till the authorities caused the church yard to be shut.
The gnarled hands shut up into clenched fists, and the feeble voice trailed off in an agonized moan.
Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
The commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.