单词 | shut-in |
释义 | shut-in /shut"in'/, adj. 1. confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness. 2. Psychiatry. disposed to desire solitude; withdrawn; asocial. 3. (of an oil or gas well) temporarily sealed up. n. 4. a person confined by infirmity or disease to the house, a hospital, etc. 5. Also called shut-in well. an oil or gas well that has been closed down. [1840-50, Amer.; adj., n. use of v. phrase shut in] |
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