All housebound synonyms
house·bound
H h adj housebound
- damaged — injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness: The storm did considerable damage to the crops.
- harmed — physical injury or mental damage; hurt: to do him bodily harm.
- deformed — disfigured or misshapen
- handicapped — Sometimes Offensive. physically or mentally disabled.
- broken — Broken is the past participle of break.
- paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
- impaired — weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge.
- mangled — to smooth or press with a mangle.
- marred — to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- lame — an ornamental fabric in which metallic threads, as of gold or silver, are woven with silk, wool, rayon, or cotton.
- incapacitated — unable to act, respond, or the like (often used euphemistically when one is busy or otherwise occupied): He can't come to the phone now—he's incapacitated.
- maimed — to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
- game — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- gimp — a limp.
- bedridden — Someone who is bedridden is so ill or has such a severe disability that they cannot get out of bed.
- defective — If something is defective, there is something wrong with it and it does not work properly.
- out of commission — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- laid up — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
adjective housebound
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- confined — If something is confined to a particular place, it exists only in that place. If it is confined to a particular group, only members of that group have it.
- isolated — compact
- cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
- snowed in — If you are snowed in, you cannot go anywhere because of heavy snow.
- snowbound — shut in or immobilized by snow.
- detained — Simple past tense and past participle of detain.
- disabled — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
- enfeebled — Make weak or feeble.