homebound
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- n people who are confined to their homes
- s confined usually by illness
- That afternoon some of the students visited an AIDS clinic, while others stuffed and decorated bags for delivery to homebound AIDS patients.
- They say the agency has at least reoriented itself in the right direction away from Earth after too many homebound years.
- Two dozen students are homebound, unable, whether physically or emotionally, to come back to class yet.