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How to pronounce housebound in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms homebound, shut-in

Examples of housebound

housebound
It was a big surgery, and poor Hunter has been housebound for several weeks now.
From the tennessean.com
It gave her husband a hacking cough and left her 7-year-old daughter housebound.
From the nzherald.co.nz
After retiring in 1994, Alexander had a nervous breakdown and became housebound.
From the edition.cnn.com
Then this year I required another surgery which left me housebound for 3 months.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
My housebound mother became so embarrassed that she stopped receiving visitors.
From the stltoday.com
Ultimately, being housebound with a silent tot did make me go a little bonkers.
From the washingtonpost.com
A snowstorm that year kept millions housebound and watching the televised race.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Without DLA it would mean many of us, myself included would become housebound.
From the guardian.co.uk
However, you don't have to be housebound or sick to benefit from keeping an animal.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • Homebound: confined usually by illness
  • Entitlement to Housebound benefits exists when the claimant is permanently and substantially confined to his/her immediate premises due to medical disability.