Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shut in by a heavy fall of snow; unable to get away from one's house or place of sojourn on account of the obstruction of travel by snow; blocked by snow, as a railway-train.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Enveloped in, or confined by, snow.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective confined or shut in by heavy snow
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Examples
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Just as Phil Connors in the movie had to keep reliving the same to him boring, tiresome day over and over, so people in rural Pennsylvania had to face the dreariness of endless overcast, snow-bound days.
Lewis Richmond: Buddhism And Groundhog Day Lewis Richmond 2012
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Just as Phil Connors in the movie had to keep reliving the same to him boring, tiresome day over and over, so people in rural Pennsylvania had to face the dreariness of endless overcast, snow-bound days.
Lewis Richmond: Buddhism And Groundhog Day Lewis Richmond 2012
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Their path took them from the high, arid plateau of Tibet, across mountain trails, glaciers and snow-bound passes into the kingdom of Sikkim.
Michaela Haas: The Lamp Of The Teachings Shines On: One Of The Greatest Female Tibetan Buddhist Masters Dies Michaela Haas 2011
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If nothing else, they quickly become lethal where roads are not snow-bound.
Forget the weather ! Norfolk Blogger 2009
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A taboo had seemingly been broken – that of never dropping your axe on snow-bound hills, for then you are helpless.
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Their path took them from the high, arid plateau of Tibet, across mountain trails, glaciers and snow-bound passes into the kingdom of Sikkim.
Michaela Haas: The Lamp Of The Teachings Shines On: One Of The Greatest Female Tibetan Buddhist Masters Dies Michaela Haas 2011
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Their path took them from the high, arid plateau of Tibet, across mountain trails, glaciers and snow-bound passes into the kingdom of Sikkim.
Michaela Haas: The Lamp Of The Teachings Shines On: One Of The Greatest Female Tibetan Buddhist Masters Dies Michaela Haas 2011
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Their path took them from the high, arid plateau of Tibet, across mountain trails, glaciers and snow-bound passes into the kingdom of Sikkim.
Michaela Haas: The Lamp Of The Teachings Shines On: One Of The Greatest Female Tibetan Buddhist Masters Dies Michaela Haas 2011
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Following rival clans at a time of clashing paganism and Christianity, it is a ceaseless flow of ravishing images: nuns clasping doves while climbing to a convent on a hill; the maiden Marketa's white-hooded head resting on her father's shoulder as they drive through a snow-bound landscape; stags glimpsed through trees in the aftermath of violence.
Reality Czech Kristin M. Jones 2011
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The novel is told in retrospect from the end-point of the snow-bound winter of 2009, when Dublin has ground to a halt and the streets are empty and blanketed, as if in a faint tribute to the end of Joyce's great story of love, loss, family and nation, "The Dead": "snow was general all over Ireland".
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