Crossword clues for claustrophobic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
confined \confined\ adj.
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having movement restricted to within a certain area; -- usually a building. Opposite of unconfined.
Note: [Narrower terms: claustrophobic; close, confining; homebound, housebound, shut-in; in childbed(prenominal); pent, shut up(predicate); snowbound; weather-bound; stormbound, storm-bound]
deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint.
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having movement restricted to within an enclosed outdoor area; -- of animals.
Syn: fenced in, penned.
(Med.) not invading healthy tissue.
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held prisoner.
Syn: captive, imprisoned, jailed.
having movement or progress restricted to a certain area; as, an outbreak of the plague confined to one quarter of the city; wildfires confined to within the canyon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1889, from claustrophobia + -ic. As a noun, "person who has claustrophobia," it is recorded from 1953.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context psychology English) Suffering from claustrophobia; being scared of being enclosed in a confined space. 2 Cramped and confined, so as to induce claustrophobia. n. Someone with claustrophobia
WordNet
adj. uncomfortably closed or hemmed in; "a claustrophobic little room"
suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places
Wikipedia
- redirect Claustrophobia
Usage examples of "claustrophobic".
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Magen felt claustrophobic, trapped between Chev and Veil and their unresolved conflicts.
Two other temps also had cups on the shelf and sleeping bags in their lockers, and when all three of them slept over it could get pretty claustrophobic.
The cornfields that had survived the storm had been cut, and the town felt freed of its claustrophobic burden.
We may be crawling through some narrow cave passages, so make sure none of them are claustrophobic.
Visions come to him: of standing in the doorway, being stormed by claustrophobic punters anxious to escape the crowded studio.
Suspended, drifting in claustrophobic redness around him were the skeletons of the hapless Ragu plus countless other bodies whose lives the Don had taken.
Spark-trails, leading backward through the muffled swaddlings of time to forgotten days of what now seemed a claustrophobic enclosure.
It was claustrophobic in the cagelike tunnel, walking in the reflected light.
I gave in with a shrug and we went by metro, with me battling as usual against the claustrophobic feeling I always got from hurtling through mole-runs far underground.
Behind the warehouses and piers was a maze of narrow streets, alleyways, cramped, dilapidated buildings and dark, claustrophobic courtyards.
The atmosphere was one of a church that had once been venerable and spacious but which was now compressed and driven into dim and claustrophobic underground tunnels.
Despite the fact that the underground lot was so vast, it was somehow claustrophobic and unsettling.
The suite was small and dim and claustrophobic but it was a luxury in that it was empty.
It was crowded, hot and stuffy, and distinctly claustrophobic, but since everyone was busy considering the horrors to come, nobody really noticed.