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shorebound

shorebound adjective: heading towards the shore.

Adjective

shorebound (not comparable)

  1. Heading towards the shore.
    • a shorebound ocean current

Origin of shorebound

From shore + -bound.

Questions about shorebound

What does shorebound mean?
Shorebound means heading towards the shore.
What part of speech is shorebound?
Shorebound is an adjective.

Words near shorebound in the dictionary

  1. shore thistle
  2. shore thistles
  3. shore up
  4. shorebird
  5. shorebirds
  6. shorebound
  7. shorebreak
  8. shorebreaks
  9. shorecrab
  10. shorecrabs
  11. shored

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