Definition of "housebound" []

• Confined to one's home, as by illness. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Are calling my housebound octogenarian mum odious?"
• "I think it's something that happens more and more as people get older, as people become "housebound," suffer injuries, debilitating illness, etc."
• ""If I hadn't got so kind of housebound," she added with touching frankness, "I'd just as soon go over with you an 'offer to watch this night.""