snow in
Trap by blizzard
To snow in is to trap someone in a location due to heavy snowfall, almost always in the passive: We were snowed in for three days.
The phrase suggests accumulation so deep that travel becomes impossible—roads blocked, cars buried, doors drifted shut.
Being snowed in carries a cozy connotation of forced domesticity, hot drinks, and cancelled obligations.
- cabin feverDistress from extended confinement
- shovelTool for moving earth
- blizzardViolent prolonged snowstorm
- winter stormSevere cold-season weather
- snowFrozen crystalline precipitation
trapped · housebound · immobilized · stranded · drift · flurries · hunker down · accumulation · seclude · stay indoors · overwhelmed · cooped up · isolation · plow · whiteout · slush · dusting · frozen
weather condition causing the state
snow inheat wave
Extended extreme warmth
summer drought · sunny day · fair weather · dry spell · scorcher