shut
IPA: ʃˈʌt
noun
- The act or time of shutting; close.
- A door or cover; a shutter.
- The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
- (Britain, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
verb
- (transitive) To close, to stop from being open.
- (intransitive) To close, to stop being open.
- (transitive or intransitive, chiefly Britain) To close (a business) temporarily.
- (transitive) To confine in an enclosed area.
- (transitive) To isolate, to close off from the world.
- (transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
- (transitive) To preclude, exclude.
adjective
- Closed; not open.
- (linguistics, phonetics, archaic) Synonym of close
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Examples of "shut" in Sentences
- He shut the door behind him with a thud.
- Goose Gossage shut the door in the ninth.
- She went to the bathroom and shut the door.
- They heard a cackle and the door slammed shut.
- The seer said he should shut the door on that night.
- As a result, on the back swing the rod jammed the door shut.
- Lily and Richard shut and lock the RV door and huddle inside.
- He shut the car door on the furiously whizzing ignition alarm.
- As the milkman enters the room, she shuts the door and locks it.
- Doors are shut behind the last of the batch and the fans started.
- But he was gone from her, his expression shut and locked like a door.
- McCain shut up .. you think it is wrong because you are not in charge.
- In January, the label shut its doors at 1042 Madison Avenue, between East 79th and
- Then turning, she saw the door shut behind her, slowly, noiselessly, but _it was shut_.
- The band signed its U.S. deal with Conquest in 1998, but the label shut down soon after.
- The grass roots movement is too strong to ever lose to a "know nothing" bimbo like Palin shut up!!
- Whether the plant will remain shut isn't clear, as company and government officials aren't saying what triggered the action.
- After a long affiliation with Trevor Jackson's now defunct Output Records, which came to an end in 2006-when the label shut its doors just after the release of Circlesquare's excellent
- I keep seeing the phrase "shut down" in reference to the nuclear reactors at Fukushima, but clearly they are not shut down as they are still generating tremendous energy in the form of heat.
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