shut-in

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A person confined to a location, as by illness or infirmity

He visited shut-ins as a good deed.

Introverted
Confined to a location, as by infirmity or illness
A shut-in is someone who is ill for a long time, and has to stay in bed or at home. Meals on Wheels or similar programs that bring outside life to shut-ins. someone who is ill or disabled and cannot leave their house very easily
someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury
confined usually by illness
to close the valves on a well so it stops producing
A well in which the valves in the production tree have been closed to cease production or injection operations on a well
somewhat introverted
An oil or gas well which is inactive
to completely surround, enclose
to lock in

We need to shut the dog in so he doesn't escape.

If you shut yourself in a room, you stay in there and make sure nobody else can get in. After one particular bad result, he shut himself in the shower room for an hour see also shut-in
If you shut someone or something in a room, you close the door so that they cannot leave it. The door enables us to shut the birds in the shelter in bad weather
imprisoned; close on -; surrounded, jailed
surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"
shut-in
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