(transitive) To confine. / (transitive) To completely surround or enclose. / (intransitive, dated) To settle down, or fall; to arrive; (said of evening, etc.)

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

Confined to a location, as by infirmity or illness.

(rare) The property of being shut.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shut in

present participle of shut in

(usually imperative, rude) To stop talking or making noise; to shut up.

(nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of shut

Closed; not open. / (linguistics, phonetics, archaic) Synonym of close

The act or time of shutting; close. / A door or cover; a shutter. / The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.