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shut
verb (shut , shutting )
1 tr & intr to place or move so as to close an opening shut the door .
2 tr & intr to close or make something close over, denying access to the contents or inside shut the cupboard shut the book .
3 tr & intr (often shut up) not to allow access to something; to forbid entrance into it shut up the building The office shuts at weekends .
4 to fasten or bar; to lock.
5 to bring together the parts or outer parts of something Shut your eyes I can't shut the clasp .
6 to confine He shuts himself in his room for hours .
7 to catch or pinch in a fastening I shut my finger in the window .
8 to end or terminate the operations of (a business, etc).
9 intr said of a business, etc: to cease to operate; to terminate.
adjective
1 not open; closed.
2 made fast; secure.
[Anglo-Saxon scyttan to bar]
shut it slang to be quiet.
shut down or shut something down to stop or make it stop working or operating, either for a time or permanently. See also shutdown.
shut someone or something in to enclose or confine them or it Remember to shut the cat in tonight .
shut something off to switch it off; to stop the flow of it. See also shut-off.
shut someone or something out
1 to prevent them or it entering a room, building, etc.
2 to exclude them or it.
3 to block out (eg light).
shut up colloq to stop speaking.
shut someone up
1 colloq to make them stop speaking; to reduce them to silence.
2 to confine them.
shut something up to close and lock (premises), either for a time or permanently shut up shop .
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