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winter-bound

winter-bound adjective: hampered, curtailed, or trapped by winter weather.

Adjective

winter-bound (comparative more winter-bound, superlative most winter-bound)

  1. Hampered, curtailed, or trapped by winter weather.
    • If the Skaldi are overly fond of wagering, bickering and drinking among themselves, I learned why: When the men are winter-bound in the confines of the great hall, there is naught else to be done.2002, Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
    • The Commons teemed with airily dressed mothers and unjacketed businessmen, the emotional gloom of a winter-bound populace exposed by the sun to be as seasonally fragile as ice.2008, Heidi Julavits, The Uses of Enchantment, page 351

Examples of winter-bound in a sentence

  • But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.2012, Elizabeth Lowry, The Bellini Madonna:
  • They walked for miles each day, in the churches, galleries and alleys of a winter-bound Venice largely free of tourists, happy in their own company.2013, Paul Kildea, Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century:

Forms of winter-bound

comparativemore winter-bound
superlativemost winter-bound

Questions about winter-bound

What does winter-bound mean?
Winter-bound means hampered, curtailed, or trapped by winter weather.
How do you use winter-bound in a sentence?
But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.
What part of speech is winter-bound?
Winter-bound is an adjective.

Words near winter-bound in the dictionary

  1. winter worms
  2. winter wren
  3. winter wrens
  4. Winter's bark
  5. Winter's law
  6. winter-bound
  7. winter-dress
  8. winter-feed
  9. winter-hained
  10. winter-hardy
  11. winter-kill

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