Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Confined in one place by heavy snow.
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- adjective Unable to move, because of heavy snow.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and a booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idaho-what more could Johansen fans want?
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Jesus, that's totally going to happen, isn't it? musicsoup why use the friday the 13th name at all? why not make an original slasher film called snowbound? don't make it about a bunch of ski instructors getting hacked up. make it more something like the decent, but in the snowy world of extreme mountain climbing. that idea sells itself. create a new killer, but don't cast a member of the WWE. or don't even make it a slasher film, just make it something original. why not? just don't make it dumb.
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The villagers are farmers and herders, and move through the Dinaric Alps during the summer months, and then settle in for the harsh six-month winter when the snowbound village is cut off from the outside.
Richard Bangs: Bosnia & Herzegovina, That Unreal Place Richard Bangs 2010
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There are pictures of car crashes on icy suburban streets, of long lines of stalled cars backed up at the toll plazas on holiday weekends, of malevolent potholes, and of a bride and groom in their tuxedo and gown shoveling out their snowbound car.
Island Life and the Wild William Meyers 2011
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For most of us, Winter respite comes in the form of a heart, that sentimental keepsake, that unlooked for display of affection, candlelight and a glass of champagne warming us up halfway through this otherwise cold, snowbound, steely gray month.
Jamie Schler: Valentine's Day Flourless Chocolate Truffle Torte Jamie Schler 2011
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The villagers are farmers and herders, and move through the Dinaric Alps during the summer months, and then settle in for the harsh six-month winter when the snowbound village is cut off from the outside.
Richard Bangs: Bosnia & Herzegovina, That Unreal Place Richard Bangs 2010
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It fell to MacDonald in 1919 to make passable this tangled continental grid that included every kind of obstacle, from snowbound mountains and raging rivers to "gumbo" mud in Iowa and briny tar beneath the salt flats of Utah.
Interstate Highways as a Long-Haul Project Patrick Cooke 2011
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Many roads were snowbound and we could not risk putting 26-tonne trucks on them.
Councils accused of complacency as rubbish left to pile up 2011
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Everything's changed for the best - how quivering and fierce we were, there snowbound together, simmering like wasps in our tent of books!
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Or was my reaction possibly due to snowbound conditions?
Ask Matt: NCIS Without Gibbs? Plus Human Target, Shameless and midseason TV 2011
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