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housebound

housebound adjective: restricted to one's home, as by physical infirmity.

Adjective

housebound (not comparable)

  1. Restricted to one's home, as by physical infirmity.
    • Returning to the sculptor described earlier, we know why that young woman suffered. She was housebound and bedbound, her face was changed by steroids, she was masculinized by her treatment, one breast was scarred, and she had almost no hair.1982 March 18, Eric J. Cassel[l], “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, number 11, →DOI, page 642
    Synonyms:
    homebound

Synonyms of housebound

Origin of housebound

From house + bound.

Words formed from housebound

Questions about housebound

What does housebound mean?
Housebound means restricted to one's home, as by physical infirmity.
What part of speech is housebound?
Housebound is an adjective.

Words near housebound in the dictionary

  1. housebook
  2. housebooks
  3. housebot
  4. housebote
  5. housebotes
  6. housebound
  7. houseboundness
  8. houseboy
  9. houseboys
  10. housebreak
  11. housebreaker

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