Definitions
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- adjective
Confined to awheelchair .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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).
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Though he's still wheelchairbound, Porter is now 23, attending college and engaged to be married.
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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
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He was eighty-nine and wheelchairbound; she was twenty-six and quiveringly mobile.
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He was eighty-nine and wheelchairbound; she was twenty-six and quiveringly mobile.
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A couple years ago I passed on a dhove laptop running Win95 at 150 mHz to a wheelchairbound fellow I met at the library.
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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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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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