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  • noun One who suffers from claustrophobia.

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  • noun a person suffering from claustrophobia

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Examples

  • Thirty-three west basin days, and I am sick to death of this campshack, its ceilinged sleep coins me claustrophobe.

    Strange Bedfellows Lemon Hound 2009

  • I found the early parts of movie featuring the women crawling through narrow caves uncomfortable to watch as an admitted cave-claustrophobe myself and the scene involving the setting of a splintered bone is similarly like to cause averted eyes.

    The Descent Greg Tannahill 2006

  • I found the early parts of movie featuring the women crawling through narrow caves uncomfortable to watch as an admitted cave-claustrophobe myself and the scene involving the setting of a splintered bone is similarly like to cause averted eyes.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Greg Tannahill 2006

  • It should be noted, regarding Hammett's disinclination to sell out his employer in this story, that this desperately ill, lifelong claustrophobe, an old man at the age of fifty-seven, spent twenty-two weeks in federal prison during the Red-baiting fifties because he refused to give up the names of men who had trusted him.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • It should be noted, regarding Hammett's disinclination to sell out his employer in this story, that this desperately ill, lifelong claustrophobe, an old man at the age of fifty-seven, spent twenty-two weeks in federal prison during the Red-baiting fifties because he refused to give up the names of men who had trusted him.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • Also, truth to tell, I have always been a bit of a claustrophobe, and the edginess that comes from suppressing an irritating and irrational fear, combined with my current far-from-irrational caution about venturing into a London bristling, for all I knew, with knife-wielding youths all too willing to pick up where their colleague had left off, made me regret that the chief inspector had not decided to keep me locked up overnight.

    A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995

  • Also, truth to tell, I have always been a bit of a claustrophobe, and the edginess that comes from suppressing an irritating and irrational fear, combined with my current far-from-irrational caution about venturing into a London bristling, for all I knew, with knife-wielding youths all too willing to pick up where their colleague had left off, made me regret that the chief inspector had not decided to keep me locked up overnight.

    A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995

  • What no one but the defendant knew at the time was that he was a severe claustrophobe; he couldn't do time.

    Will Liddy, G. Gordon 1980

  • I am not a claustrophobe, but a coffin would be roomier.

    Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963

  • A journey through the Mountain State convinces the traveler that on her side of the Blue Ridge West Virginia offers as many wonders under the earth as above it, if one is not a claustrophobe.

    Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

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