shut in
• keep someone or something inside a place by closing something such as a door.
• "her parents shut her in an upstairs room"
Similar:
confine,
enclose,
impound,
shut up,
pen (in/up),
fence in,
hedge in,
hurdle,
rail in,
coop (up),
mew up,
immure,
box up/in,
wall in/up,
lock up/in,
cage,
imprison,
intern,
hold captive,
incarcerate,
encircle,
surround,
ring,
encompass,
hem in,
close in,
trap,
kettle,
corral,
gird,
compass,
shut-in
noun
• a person confined indoors, especially as a result of either physical or mental disability.
• "she volunteered to visit the sick and the shut-ins"
• a state or period in which an oil or gas well has available but unused capacity.
