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shutin

shutin is the alternative spelling of shut-in.

Meaning of shut-in

Noun

shut-in (plural shut-ins)

  1. A person confined to a location, as by illness or infirmity.
    • He visited shut-ins as a good deed.
  2. A narrow river gorge confined by resistant rock layers; a type of rock formation in which a stream is confined to a narrow bed of resistant stone.
    • A shut-in is a geological feature similar to a gorge that “shuts-in” the river.2024 January 16 (last accessed), Missouri Department of Natural Resources, “Swimming at Johnson's Shut-ins State Park”, in Missouri State Parks, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2024

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Forms of shutin

pluralshutins

Questions about shutin

What is shutin the alternative spelling of?
Shutin is the alternative spelling of shut-in.

Words near shutin in the dictionary

  1. shutdowns
  2. shute
  3. shutes
  4. Shutesbury
  5. shuteye
  6. shutin
  7. shutins
  8. shutki
  9. shutness
  10. shutoff
  11. shutoffs

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