Crossword clues for snowbound
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
Wiktionary
a. Unable to move, because of heavy snow.
WordNet
adj. confined or shut in by heavy snow
Wikipedia
"Snowbound" is the fourth track from Donald Fagen's second solo album Kamakiriad.
Snowbound is a thriller film released in 2001. The film stars Erika Eleniak, Monika Schnarre, and Peter Dobson.
Snowbound is the fifth studio album by Fourplay, released in 1999. It is a recording of Christmas songs.
Snowbound is a 1948 British thriller film directed by David MacDonald and starring Dennis Price, Stanley Holloway, Mila Parély, and Herbert Lom. A group of people search for treasure hidden by the Nazis in the Alps following the Second World War. It was based on the novel The Lonely Skier by Hammond Innes.
Snowbound is a 1963 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, arranged by Don Costa.
Snowbound is a 1927 silent film comedy produced and released by Tiffany Pictures and directed by Phil Goldstone. It stars Robert Agnew, Betty Blythe and Harold Goodwin.
It is preserved at the Library of Congress.
Usage examples of "snowbound".
Snowbound in a tavern at Hartford, Adams fell into conversation with another traveler who happened not to recognize him.
And Furvain, glancing for just a moment into his wine-bowl as though some poem might be lurking there, would draw a deep breath and instantaneously begin to recite a mock epic, in neatly balanced hexameter and the most elaborate of anapestic rhythms, about the desperate craving of a Pontifex for sausage made of steetmoy meat, and the sending of the laziest and most cowardly of the royal courtiers on a hunting expedition to the snowbound lair of that ferocious white-furred creature of northern Zimroel.
Finally the barges reached snowbound and windswept heathlands in which a few sheep-pens and juniper bushes projected themselves from sculpted snowdrifts like ruins.
Five days ago they had left Ice Trapper territory, traveling through ice storms and whiteouts, across black hackled ice and snowbound foothills, and in all that time she had seen nothing but certainty on his face.
Jack's mother Teresa, rest her poor soul, had needed a sunny place to recuperate after hiding out in the snowbound Megapod Reserve of British Columbia, and the island afforded a perfect refuge for the three of them.
He did so, supplying us with an ecological chain that includes plants, trees, grain, food beasts, and those that could be used in a variety of tasks, such as the sled dogs, curly-coats, moose, deer, the other small food and fur animals, birds, insects: all viable on this cold, snowbound planet.