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wheelchairbound

Definitions

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  • adjective Confined to a wheelchair.

Etymologies

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wheelchair +‎ bound

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Examples

  • Most participants agree: "I look forward to being here," says Ethel Greenwald, 76, a blind, wheelchairbound retired schoolteacher who attends the OPICA center once a week.

    A Home Away From Home 2008

  • Behind the counter, volunteers prepare nickel and dime bags of Californian weed for a long line of wheelchairbound veterans, AIDS patients and other sick and dying people waiting for their morning high.

    The War Over Weed 2008

  • The relatives who descend on wheelchairbound Uncle Joe McTeague (Kirk Douglas) have tough competition in the inheritance game: Uncle's luscious British live-in "nurse" (Olivia d'Abo).

    A Blast Of Hollywood Bile 2008

  • Though he's still wheelchairbound, Porter is now 23, attending college and engaged to be married.

    Surviving Against All Odds 2008

  • The Doublemint Coens give us double Lebowskis: Jeff, a.k.a. the Dude (Jeff Bridges), a zonked-out Californian with beach sand in his gears, and Jeff, a.k.a. the Big (David Huddleston), a mysterious wheelchairbound millionaire.

    All-Purpose Parody 2008

  • He was eighty-nine and wheelchairbound; she was twenty-six and quiveringly mobile.

    The Coming Death Shortage 2005

  • He was eighty-nine and wheelchairbound; she was twenty-six and quiveringly mobile.

    The Coming Death Shortage 2005

  • A couple years ago I passed on a dhove laptop running Win95 at 150 mHz to a wheelchairbound fellow I met at the library.

    The Speculist: Closing The Digital Divide 2006

  • Pelletier and Espinoza visit London often, because Norton lives there; and even wheelchairbound Moroni comes over from time to time.

    The Valve Adam Roberts 2010

  • Pelletier and Espinoza visit London often, because Norton lives there; and even wheelchairbound Moroni comes over from time to time.

    The Valve Adam Roberts 2010

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