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cabined

cabined adjective: confined at close quarters. Also the simple past and past participle of cabin.

Adjective

cabined (not comparable)

  1. Confined at close quarters
    • He did not realise that there was nothing personal in this aloofness, except in so far as he personified a larger life, whose hopeful outlook stirred in more cabined natures an unacknowledged resentment.1906, Herbert M. Hopkins, The Mayor of Warwick
    • They feel themselves in a state of thraldom; they imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in, unless they have some man, or some body of men, dependent on their mercy.1920, Clarence Stratton, Public Speaking
  2. Circumscribed; restricted; having a narrow scope

Also used as

cabined is also the simple past and past participle of cabin.

Origin of cabined

From cabin + -ed.

Words formed from cabined

Questions about cabined

What does cabined mean?
Cabined means confined at close quarters.
What part of speech is cabined?
Cabined is an adjective.

Words near cabined in the dictionary

  1. cabinboy
  2. cabinboys
  3. Cabinda
  4. Cabindan
  5. Cabindans
  6. cabined
  7. cabinent
  8. cabinesque
  9. Cabiness
  10. Cabinesses
  11. cabinet

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