- confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- disposed to desire solitude; withdrawn; asocial.
- (of an oil or gas well) temporarily sealed up.
- a person confined by infirmity or disease to the house, a hospital, etc.
- an oil or gas well that has been closed down.
- mainly US and Canadian
- a person confined indoors by illness
- (as modifier)
- a condition in which the person is highly withdrawn and unable to express his own feelings
