Shut definition
To block entrance to or exit from; close.
Shut a corridor.
verb
To confine in a closed space.
Shut them in a cage.
verb
To exclude from a closed space.
Shut the cats out of the house.
verb
To move (a door or lid, for example) so as to block passage through an opening.
verb
To close (an opening, passage, container, etc.)
verb
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To move to a closed position; be or become shut.
verb
Closed, fastened, or secured.
adjective
The act or time of shutting or closing; close.
noun
The connecting line between two pieces of welded metal.
noun
To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
verb
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To fold up or bring together the parts of.
Shut the book.
verb
To cause to stop operating.
Shut down a restaurant; a school that was shut for the vacation.
verb
The act or time of shutting.
noun
Shut is defined as to close or fasten.
An example of shut is to close a window.
An example of shut is to attach the lid to the top of a container.
verb
To fasten with a lock, catch, or latch.
Shut the cabinet.
verb
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To move or become moved so as to block passage; close.
A door that shuts by itself.
verb
To stop operating, especially automatically.
The electricity shuts off at midnight.
verb
The line of connection between welded pieces of metal.
noun
To fold up or bring together the parts of (an umbrella, a book, the mouth, etc.)
verb
To stop or suspend the operation of (a business, school, etc.)
verb
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To move (a door, window, lid, etc.) into a position that closes the opening to which it is fitted.
verb
To close by so moving its lid, cover, etc.
Shut a cash box, one's eyes, etc.
verb
To fasten (a door, etc.) securely, as with a bolt or catch.
verb
To prevent or forbid entrance to or exit from; close or bar.
verb
To confine or enclose in a room, cage, building, etc.
verb
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shut (one's) eyes to
- To refuse to consider or acknowledge:Administrators who shut their eyes to pervasive corruption.
idiom
shut down
- to close by lowering
- to descend and envelop or darken a place
- to cease or cause to cease operating; close (a factory, etc.)
- to bring to an end or restrict severely (with on or upon)
idiom
shut in
- to surround or enclose; hem in
idiom
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shut of
- rid of; free from
idiom
shut off
- to prevent the passage of (electricity, steam, etc.)
- to prevent passage through (a road, faucet, etc.)
- to separate; isolate
idiom
shut out
- to deny entrance or admission to; exclude (sound, a view, etc.)
- to prevent (an opposing side or team) from scoring in a game or from winning even one game in a series of games
idiom
shut up
- to enclose, confine, or imprison
- to close all the entrances to
idiom
Origin of shut
- Middle English shutten from Old English scyttan skeud- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English shutten, shetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt, shut to, discharge a debt, pay off"), from Proto-Germanic *skutjanÄ…, *skuttjanÄ… (“to bar, bolt"), from Proto-Germanic *skuttÄ…, *skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keud- (“to drive, fall upon, rush"). Cognate with Dutch schutten (“to shut in, lock up"), German schützen (“to shut out, dam, protect, guard").
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