Usually means: Confined indoors, typically involuntarily.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word shut in:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. shut-in, shut in: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shut-in: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shut-in: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shut-in, shut-in: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shut-in, shut in: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shut-in, shut-in: Wordnik
  7. shut-in, shut in: Wiktionary
  8. shut-in: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. shut-in: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. shut-in: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. shut-in, shut in: Dictionary.com
  12. Shut In, Shut-in, Shut-in (oil drilling): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. shut-in, shut in: Rhymezone
  14. shut-in, shut in: Free Dictionary
  15. shut-in, shut in: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. shut-in, shut in: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shut in: Energy Dictionary
  2. shut-in, shut in: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut-in, shut in: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut-in: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut-in, shut in: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

(Note: See shut_ins as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shut in)

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

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