cabined

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adjective

Confined at close quarters

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Meanings

adjectivecabined (not comparable)
  1. not comparableConfined at close quarters

    Then, if there comes a click in his internal time-clock, he may set out upon another quest--more cabined, cribbed, and confined than any member of a Cook's tourist party.

    1921, William Beebe, Edge of the Jungle
    2 more examples

    He did not realise that there was nothing personal in this aloofness, except in so far as he personified a larger life, whose hopeful outlook stirred in more cabined natures an unacknowledged resentment.

    1906, Herbert M. Hopkins, The Mayor of Warwick

    They feel themselves in a state of thraldom; they imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in, unless they have some man, or some body of men, dependent on their mercy.

    1920, Clarence Stratton, Public Speaking
  2. not comparableCircumscribed; restricted; having a narrow scope
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of cabin

Origin

From cabin + -ed.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

deciban
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APA

cabined. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cabined

MLA

“cabined.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cabined. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cabined,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cabined.

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