The phrase "fused shut" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is sealed or closed tightly, often implying that it cannot be opened without force.
Example: "The old door had been fused shut by years of rust and neglect."
Alternatives: "sealed tight" or "closed off".
Weighing only 520g, she looked like an alien, her eyes fused shut and her skin red and taut over her bones.
Their skin was translucent, still covered with a downy hair, their eyes were fused shut, they hadn't developed cartilage yet so their ears were just little flaps of skin, and their thighs were about the size of my pinky finger.
Down the hall from O.R. 5, in the hospital's neonatal intensive-care unit, babies around the same gestational age barely cling to life: their skin looks as thin as rice paper; their eyes are fused shut; their limbs are spindly like frogs' legs; and incubators, ventilators and monitors serve as their artificial wombs.
His mother said: "His skin was shiny and wet looking, his eyelids were still fused shut and he had no eyelashes or eyebrows". The Watsons have two older sons, five-year-old Reuben and two-year-old Rowan.
His eyes were fused shut.
She was raw and red, her eyes were fused shut, and through her translucent skin we could see her flickering heart.
If that lock fails, the monitor automatically blows a fuse, shutting down the unit.
CAUTION: Before testing a fuse in this manner, shut off all power and remove the fuse.
"How do you know they're on in a blackout?" Mr. Sinclair proposed a "much easier breaker switch, that isn't in the basement, something aside from a fuse box, that could shut everything off".
When the power surged, the fuse - because it was oversensitive - shut down the system when a correct fuse would not have done.
For unmarked breakers, turn the light switch on that you are changing and shut off the fuses 1 by 1 until you find the correct breaker.
