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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