Meanings
adjectivestormbound (not comparable)
- not comparableCaught in a storm, so that proper navigation is impossible.
When he and the boy fished together they usually spoke only when it was necessary. They talked at night or when they were storm-bound by bad weather.
1952 September 1, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 39
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivedelayed or confined or cut off by a storm
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishstorm
- Old Norsebúinn
- Middle Englishbownde
- Englishbound
- Englishstormbound
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