stormbound

[ stawrm-bound ]

adjective

1. confined, detained, or isolated by storms:

   a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.

stormbound

/ ˈstɔːmˌbaʊnd /

adjective

1. detained or harassed by storms

Word History and Origins

Origin of stormbound¹

First recorded in 1820–30; storm + -bound ¹

Example Sentences

Before the game was played out one was dead by murder and another by suicide at Royal’s stormbound country place.

From New York Times

The snowstorm proved such a heavy one that for three days the party at Professor Jeffer’s cabin were completely stormbound.

From Project Gutenberg

On the 5th, imagine him at Dover with an equipage of five hundred persons shivering on the brink of the Channel, and stormbound there for fourteen days at a cost of 14,000 crowns.

From Project Gutenberg

Not to become stormbound, they increased their pace, reaching the lower end of the gulch by six o'clock in the evening.

From Project Gutenberg

But I don’t think the train will be stormbound.

From Project Gutenberg