1. shut in - Noun
2. shut in - Adjective
3. shut in - Verb
4. shut in - Adjective Satellite
surround completely
confined usually by illness
somewhat introverted
someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury
Source: WordNetshut-in
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. Virginia Woolf
The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces. Nicole Krauss
It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much. Graham Greene
In the great desert of northern Arizona the traveller, threading his way across a sage-brush and cacti plain shut in by abrupt-sided shelves of land rising here and there some hundreds of feet higher, suddenly comes upon a petrified forest. Percival Lowell
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. Edvard Munch
This entire situation is insane.” Jean slammed his book shut in disgust. "It was insane before; now it's become malicious. Scott Lynch