Usually means: Confined to home, usually permanently.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word housebound:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. housebound: Merriam-Webster
  2. housebound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. housebound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. housebound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. housebound: Vocabulary.com
  6. housebound: Wordnik
  7. housebound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. housebound: Wiktionary
  9. housebound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. housebound: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. housebound: Dictionary.com
  12. housebound: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Housebound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. housebound: Rhymezone
  15. housebound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. housebound: FreeDictionary.org
  17. housebound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. housebound: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. housebound: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Housebound: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Restricted to one's home, as by physical infirmity.

Similar:
homebound, shut-in, confined, bedridden, bedbound, chairbound, couchbound, bedfast, laid up, boatbound, more...

Opposite:
mobile, free, unconfined, liberated

Types:
agoraphobic, claustrophobic, homesick, more...

Adjectives:
more, elderly, patient, less, old, longer, individual

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Similar:
homebound, shut-in, confined, bedridden, bedbound, chairbound, couchbound, bedfast, laid up, boatbound, more...

Opposite:
mobile, free, unconfined, liberated

Types:
agoraphobic, claustrophobic, homesick, more...

Adjectives:
more, elderly, patient, less, old, longer, individual



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