Shut meaning
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 confine in a closed space.
Shut them in a cage.
verb
To block entrance to or exit from; close.
Shut a corridor.
verb
To exclude from a closed space.
Shut the cats out of the house.
verb
To fold up or bring together the parts of.
Shut the book.
verb
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To cause to stop operating.
Shut down a restaurant; a school that was shut for the vacation.
verb
To stop operating, especially automatically.
The electricity shuts off at midnight.
verb
The act or time of shutting.
noun
To close (an opening, passage, container, etc.)
verb
To fold up or bring together the parts of (an umbrella, a book, the mouth, etc.)
verb
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To stop or suspend the operation of (a business, school, etc.)
verb
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
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To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
verb
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To move or become moved so as to block passage; close.
A door that shuts by itself.
verb
The line of connection between welded pieces of metal.
noun
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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
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
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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…, *skuttjÅ (“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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