snowbound

[ snoh-bound ]

/ ˈsnoʊˌbaʊnd /

shut in or immobilized by snow.

Origin of snowbound

First recorded in 1805–15; snow + -bound¹

And then he added quickly: “It looks to me as if we were going to be snowbound!”

Dave Porter and His Double |Edward Stratemeyer
Here you are,—snowbound on a treeless plain with mother old and crippled.

A Son of the Middle Border |Hamlin Garland
I fancied him killed by Indians on the trail, or snowbound and starving on the Plains.

An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) |Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)
When I went out, the winter seemed past and gone; I knew then what made these snowbound hearts so warm.

St. Cuthbert's |Robert E. Knowles

As the plane roared over the snowbound town, men appeared, waving their arms frantically.

Jane Stewardess of the Air Lines |Ruthe S. Wheeler

snowbound

/ (ˈsnəʊˌbaʊnd) /

confined to one place by heavy falls or drifts of snow; snowed-in