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Definitions of shut
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To close.
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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"
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To close; stop; obstruct.
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The act of closing; a shutter. To shut in, to confine. To shut out, to exclude. To shut up, to close; to obstruct; to confine; to conclude.
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To keep in; confine.
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of Shut
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Shut.
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not open; " the door slammed shut"
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become closed; " The windows closed with a loud bang"
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To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.
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The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
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move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut; " Close the door"; " shut the window"
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To close itself:- pr. p. shutting; pa. t. and pa. p. shut.
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To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.
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To close so as to prevent entrance or exit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country; exclude; to fold or close together, as an umbrella or a book; to imprison or confine: with in, up, within, etc.; as, to shut up a convict.
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To be closed.
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Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g.
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To obscure; hide.
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To become closed.
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To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.
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Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
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Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, always are.
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Rid; dull; stopped.
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To bar out; excude.
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The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.
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Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.
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To close; to bar; to exclude.
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To close itself; to be closed.
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A door or cover; a shutter.
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To close so as to prevent entrance or exit; to close or stop up for defence or security; to forbid entrance into; to contract; not to keep expanded; to close itself.
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To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
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To close, as a door: to forbid entrance into: to contract or close.
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Made fast or closed.
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Shutting.
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To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
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used especially of mouth or eyes; " he sat quietly with closed eyes"; " his eyes were shut against the sunlight"
Antonyms for shut
constitute, found, erupt, ajar, opened, open up, begin, Unclosed, eruct, wide-eyed, Hindered, wide-open, staring, include, Hobbled, innovate, yawning, agaze, unobstructed, open, unfastened, gaping, unstopped, set up, let in, inaugurate, disgorge, free, introduce, unclogged, initiate, clear, spew, handicapped, Unclose, expel, wide, eject, encumbered, establish, agape, admit, cleared.
Quotes of shut
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
– Abu Bakr -
It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.
– Roseanne Barr -
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
– Eddie Campbell -
It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.
– Shawn Fanning -
Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.
– Ricky Gervais -
My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.
– Tracey Gold -
Shut up and lace up.
– L. M. Heroux -
Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.
– Nizar Qabbani -
Always do sober what you said you'd do when you were drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut
– Charles Scribner, Jr. -
And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.
– Billy Sherwood -
I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
– Andrew Taylor Still -
I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that.
– Lee Tergesen -
When even one American- who has done nothing wrong- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth- then all Americans are in peril.
– Harry S. Truman -
Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
– Zhang Ziyi
Usage examples for shut
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“ All her life she had noticed that her mother shut her eyes when she wanted to think. ”
– An Orkney Maid by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr -
“ Please, sir, the boy said, would you have me shut up in another place? ”
– When London Burned by G. A. Henty -
“ " Now remember, every one of you, to shut the door just as soon as you are in. ”
– Winning His Way by Charles Carleton Coffin -
“ Is the door shut Rodd? ”
– Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman -
“ But we will shut you out of the country yet. ”
– Montlivet by Alice Prescott Smith -
“ She shut the door. ”
– The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard -
“ Stand on one side, and be ready to shut the window to as soon as I get him outside. ”
– The Mynns' Mystery by George Manville Fenn -
“ Please go out, dear, and shut the door. ”
– An Ambitious Man by Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
“ We shall shut you up together to talk things over. ”
– Jack Haydon's Quest by John Finnemore -
“ I'm tellin' you, again, keep your mouth shut about her." ”
– Flowing Gold by Rex Beach -
“ Shut to that door! ”
– When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan -
“ She got into the carriage, and I shut the door, and she said, 'Home, Moysey! ”
– Amusement Only by Richard Marsh -
“ Tell me about my son; for I cannot shut my heart upon him. ”
– A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda Minnie Douglas -
“ Shut the door, and sit down and let's talk of many things." ”
– The Gem Collector by P. G. Wodehouse -
“ Was it not certain to be shut when we wanted to return? ”
– In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory -
“ " Perhaps I shall get into trouble again for it," he said, " and be shut up for a year- perhaps for more. ”
– The Star-Gazers by George Manville Fenn -
“ I can't die here shut up with all these sick people. ”
– Lovey Mary by Alice Hegan Rice -
“ Shut it, I say!" ”
– Jeanne of the Marshes by E. Phillips Oppenheim -
“ Then I got up and shut it. ”
– The Upper Berth by Francis Marion Crawford -
“ She shut her eyes and looked in on her past. ”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by Lucy Maud Montgomery