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housebound (not comparable)

1. Restricted to one's home, as by physical infirmity.

   Synonym: homebound (in one of its senses)

   Coordinate terms: chairbound, bedbound

   • 1982 March 18, Eric J. Cassel[l], “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, number 11, →DOI, page 642:

     Returning to the sculptor described earlier, we know why that young woman suffered. She was housebound and bedbound, her face was changed by steroids, she was masculinized by her treatment, one breast was scarred, and she had almost no hair.

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