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snowbound

[ snoh-bound ]

adjective

  1. shut in or immobilized by snow.


snowbound

/ ˈsnəʊˌbaʊnd /

adjective

  1. confined to one place by heavy falls or drifts of snow; snowed-in


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Word History and Origins

Origin of snowbound1

First recorded in 1805–15; snow + -bound 1

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Example Sentences

Experience a traditional snowbound Scandinavian dish with these lesser-known twists on salmon.

He spoke with keen delight of the times when he had been magnificently snowbound in the Lords Mountain House.

High above him towered a rock-ribbed peak, so tall that even in summer its upper reaches were snowbound.

More than eight thousand feet up in the mountains, the Hospice must have been snowbound long since.

Becoming snowbound they took refuge in a springy opening at the bottom of a forested slope.

It was like an experience of reading snowbound in Whittier's old home.

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