Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Impeded, detained, embarrassed, or confined by fog.

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Examples

  • After two solid days spent in a fog-bound car on a moose-laden highway, I am finally back to a place from which I can blog.

    News catchup 2010

  • The morning sun in San Cristóbal at about 7,000 feet after a possibly gloomy fog-bound start of the day until about 10: 00AM is brilliant and crystal clear in high mountain air when rain clouds do not interfere and by noon one can experience the phenomenon of bathing in warm, embracing sunlight on the sunny sides of streets while feeling the chill on shady thoroughfares.

    Tamal Nights, Brilliant Days 2009

  • The morning sun in San Cristóbal at about 7,000 feet after a possibly gloomy fog-bound start of the day until about 10: 00AM is brilliant and crystal clear in high mountain air when rain clouds do not interfere and by noon one can experience the phenomenon of bathing in warm, embracing sunlight on the sunny sides of streets while feeling the chill on shady thoroughfares.

    Tamal Nights, Brilliant Days 2009

  • His portraits of fog-bound London captured that ghostly beauty, while Henri Cartier-Bresson took evocative photographs of Paris in the fog.

    Culture flash: fog 2011

  • Our first stop was the tiny archipelago St Pierre et Miquelon, a collection of fog-bound rocks in the freezing North Atlantic just below Newfoundland.

    Travelling round the world with children 2011

  • The morning sun in San Cristóbal at about 7,000 feet after a possibly gloomy fog-bound start of the day until about 10: 00AM is brilliant and crystal clear in high mountain air when rain clouds do not interfere and by noon one can experience the phenomenon of bathing in warm, embracing sunlight on the sunny sides of streets while feeling the chill on shady thoroughfares.

    Tamal Nights, Brilliant Days 2009

  • The answer, perhaps, is that you would get a book that bore approximately as much resemblance to the fog-bound world of 221B Baker Street as the Disney version of "The Jungle Book" does to Kipling's India.

    The Game Is Always Afoot D.J. Taylor 2011

  • The morning sun in San Cristóbal at about 7,000 feet after a possibly gloomy fog-bound start of the day until about 10: 00AM is brilliant and crystal clear in high mountain air when rain clouds do not interfere and by noon one can experience the phenomenon of bathing in warm, embracing sunlight on the sunny sides of streets while feeling the chill on shady thoroughfares.

    Tamal Nights, Brilliant Days 2009

  • "I wouldn't say I have made it yet," the 25-year-old midfielder says modestly at Bolton Wanderers' fog-bound training ground.

    Bolton's Stuart Holden: 'I got the x-ray results and thought: not again' 2011

  • The morning sun in San Cristóbal at about 7,000 feet after a possibly gloomy fog-bound start of the day until about 10: 00AM is brilliant and crystal clear in high mountain air when rain clouds do not interfere and by noon one can experience the phenomenon of bathing in warm, embracing sunlight on the sunny sides of streets while feeling the chill on shady thoroughfares.

    Tamal Nights, Brilliant Days 2009

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