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shut English

Meaning shut meaning

What does shut mean?
Definitions in simple English

shut Verb

— When someone moves a door so that people can't go through it, the person is shutting the door. When someone puts their lips together so that no air or food can go in or out of their mouth, the person is shutting their mouth. The wind was too cold, so I shut the window.

shut

— verb (= close) move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut Close the door shut the window — adjective not open the door slammed shut — adjective (= closed) used especially of mouth or eyes he sat quietly with closed eyes his eyes were shut against the sunlight — verb (= close) become closed The windows closed with a loud bang — verb (= exclude, shut out) prevent from entering; shut out The trees were shutting out all sunlight This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country

Synonyms shut synonyms

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shut English » English

close closed cover lock block seal stop hide conceal shut off locked block up bar stopped shut mouth shut eye occlude obstruct covered cover over close up bolt unopen turn off shutter shut out shut down prevent off keep out gather fasten fast exclude enclose cork up close off check blockade be shut adjourn zip winding-up veil valve up against unite trammel touching tightly closed

Topics shut topics

What do people use shut to talk about?
Physical actions Move something Open

Shut, close

  • What words refer to shutting something?
    shut close
  • What words describe something that is shut?
    shut closed
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Quiet
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Ignore
Language and thought Communication Say Voice

Say nothing
Work and occupation Tool

Machine
Physical actions Move Pursue

Prevent from moving

Conjugation shut conjugation

How do you conjugate shut?

shut · verb

Examples shut examples

How do I use shut in a sentence?

Simple sentences

They decided to shut down the factory.
I've shut all six windows.
Shut the fuck up!
Tom pushed the door shut.
Shut the book.
I told you to keep your mouth shut.
I'm telling you to shut up.
If you don't have anything nice to say, keep your mouth shut.
Shut up and let me speak!
Our factory was shut down.
Our factory has been shut down.
Shut the door on your way out.
I feel cold. Would you shut the window, please?
It looks like rain. We had better shut the windows.
It is not good for your health to shut yourself in all day.
Shut off the radio.
Shut the door behind you.
Shut the door, please.
Will you please shut the door?
After I shut the door, I remembered I had left my key behind.
Shut the door.
The burglar shut the child in the closet.
Mary shut herself up in the room, with all the windows closed.
Please don't forget to shut the door.

Movie subtitles

Shut your mouth. I'm going to kill you.
No doubt after nine long days shut in a shoebox, it was the most able, and the certainly most indefatigable, candidates who passed the imperial examination.
The least little thing caused the trap to snap shut because there were no external resources to draw on.
You shut the fuck up!
You keep your mouth shut!
This district is shut down.
We've been shut down.
Shut up, Miljan.
Shut up, Billy.
Oh, just shut up.
Shut the door so James Franco can't get out.
You're pretty. shut down emotionally.
Do shut up, Lucas!
I had a rabbit when I was a little girl, but it got shut in the cupboard under the stairs.
I know that you're mad at me, but you cannot shut me out.
Shut off the main power!
She asked you to be her partner and you had champagne. Then she shut the door, so I couldn't hear more.
I'll take notes from the director. Everyone else should shut up!
You can't shut me up!
Shut up!
Keep your trap shut!
Shut up! Let me out!
That's a lie! Shut her up!
Shut those honorable kissers, because here comes the main attraction!
Shut out the light.
It was his. - Shut up, you!
Shut your eyes.
Thing to do is keep your trap shut.
No, you shut up, Naomi!
Look. I know that you're mad at me, but you cannot shut me out.
I might, but I'd keep my mouth shut.
Well, shut up.
Shut up, will you?
If you have anything more to tell on me spill it right now, or shut your big mouth and get out.
Shut up, will ya.
Shut up, I'm not interested in the ring.
And shut up.

News and current affairs

KIEV: Chernobyl, the world's most notorious nuclear power plant, will be shut down today, fourteen years after it spewed clouds of radioactive dust into the atmosphere.
Now that Chernobyl will be permanently shut down, world attention again turns to Ukraine, this time in hope, not fear.
We committed to shut down Chernobyl this year in an agreement with the G-7 countries and the European Commission.
A window of opportunity opened at the beginning of Bush's first term, and closed shut after the terrorist attacks of September 2001.
The current epidemic of ideology, in which advisory committees are shut down and reassembled with new members, and candidates are subjected to loyalty tests, seems old hat to some observers.
As requested by the European Council, I am developing, in cooperation with the European Commission, a strategy to shut down terrorist financing.
After Japan's nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Germany decided to shut down its entire nuclear power industry and shift entirely to a strategy based on greater energy efficiency (lower energy input per unit of national income) and renewables.
But the riskiest countries already have been shut out of financial markets, so the possibility of a panic reaction is of limited consequence.
For example, the Democracy and Freedom Web site has been either temporarily shut down or blocked 43 times in three years.
Today, the average online lifespan of proxy servers in China is a mere 30 minutes, and 17,000 Internet cafes have been shut down.
The report also revealed the improbability of another Gore scenario: that global warming could make the Gulf Stream shut down, turning Europe into a new Siberia.
Croatia's opposition was for a long time limited to NGO's such as the Helsinki Committee, which challenged the government on the slippery terrain of human and minority rights, an area where the parliamentary opposition kept its collective mouths shut.
But it was difficult to prove the source of the attack, and the Pentagon had to shut down some of its computer systems.
Already, the Greeks and the other countries subject to special measures have been shut out of the wholesale markets, and are reliant almost entirely on the European Central Bank.
The increasingly forlorn resistance operations staged from Indian territory were shut down in the hope of reciprocation from the Burmese side.
As a result, migrant workers - an underclass numbering roughly 160 million - remain shut out of government-supported health care, education, and social security.
They are not directly censored, but they operate under the chilling knowledge that they can be shut down on vague charges at any moment.
The control systems that electric power companies use are thought vulnerable to attack, which could shut down cities and regions for days or weeks.
In the face of aggressive price cutting by Chinese rare-earth producers, many mines in the US and elsewhere in the world were shut down over the years.
And shut it up inside.

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