storm·bound

[stawrm-bound]
adjective
confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.

Origin:
1820–30; storm + -bound1

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stormbound (ˈstɔːmˌbaʊnd) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
detained or harassed by storms

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Stormbound is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
Example sentences
As the outer coastal range sank, its peaks were left as a string of stormbound islets.
Scores of vessels are stormbound and a freeze up is feared.
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