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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Immobilized by heavy fog.
  • adjective Enveloped or obscured by fog.

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  • adjective enveloped in fog to such an extent that movement is dangerous or impossible

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  • adjective enveloped in fog

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Examples

  • The first staging of one of O'Neill's works came when an amateur theatre group in Provincetown, Cape Cod put on his 1914 one-acter Bound East For Cardiff, a play set onboard a fogbound vessel in the middle of the Atlantic.

    This week's new theatre and dance 2012

  • Well beyond Hokkaido, bisected by the 50th parallel, the isles were typically cold, fogbound, and of only marginal interest to American strategists.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • The battle of the backlashes has resumed in the fogbound Pennines after the briefest of truces over Christmas.

    Oldham East presents voters with dilemma: who gets the biggest slap? 2010

  • 'The Others' 2001 In this supernatural thriller set in a fogbound mansion on the Isle of Jersey, Nicole Kidman's Grace waits for her soldier husband to come home from World War II.

    Computer Epic 'TRON' Lacks Heart Drive Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • Well beyond Hokkaido, bisected by the 50th parallel, the isles were typically cold, fogbound, and of only marginal interest to American strategists.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • The Jet Skis were two tiny specks floating in the fogbound sea.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • The Jet Skis were two tiny specks floating in the fogbound sea.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • The Jet Skis were two tiny specks floating in the fogbound sea.

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  • There are fogbound places and places known locally as "banana belts" maybe a mile away that are usually fresh and sunny.

    Help finding our ideal place in Mexico 2007

  • The most productive places for growing artichokes and brussels sprouts on the Northern California coast are fogbound and cool regions from Castroville to Davenport mostly along Monterey Bay and just north of there.

    shipping artichokes 2007

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