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wheelchair-bound

wheelchair-bound is the alternative spelling of wheelchairbound.

Meaning of wheelchairbound

Adjective

wheelchairbound (not comparable)

  1. Needing a wheelchair consistently (as contrasted with using one sometimes but not always).
    • Near-synonym: chairbound
    Synonyms:
    chairbound

Origin of wheelchair-bound

From wheelchair + -bound.

Questions about wheelchair-bound

What is wheelchair-bound the alternative spelling of?
Wheelchair-bound is the alternative spelling of wheelchairbound.

Words near wheelchair-bound in the dictionary

  1. wheelchair ramps
  2. wheelchair rugby
  3. wheelchair tennis
  4. wheelchair user
  5. wheelchair users
  6. wheelchair-bound
  7. wheelchair-user
  8. wheelchair-users
  9. wheelchairbound
  10. wheelchaired
  11. wheelchairing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheelchair-bound (page history and authors); wheelchairbound (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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