shut in

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Verb

shut in - surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence"

inclose, close in, enclose

tuck, insert - fit snugly into; "insert your ticket into the slot"; "tuck your shirttail in"

wall in, wall up - enclose with a wall

bower, embower - enclose in a bower

border, environ, surround, skirt, ring - extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"

enshrine, shrine - enclose in a shrine; "the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral"

encase, incase, case - enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud"

swallow up, eat up, immerse, swallow, bury - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"

frame, frame in, border - enclose in or as if in a frame; "frame a picture"

glass in, glass - enclose with glass; "glass in a porch"

bank - enclose with a bank; "bank roads"

encapsulate - enclose in a capsule or other small container

fence, fence in - enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard"

cordon off, rope in, rope off - divide by means of a rope; "The police roped off the area where the crime occurred"

casket - enclose in a casket

corral - enclose in a corral; "corral the horses"

fort, fortify - enclose by or as if by a fortification

hedge in, hedge - enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; "hedge the property"

shut

verb

To move (a door, for example) in order to cover an opening:

close.

phrasal verb
shut in

To confine within a limited area:

cage, coop (in or up), enclose, fence (in), immure, mew (up), pen, shut up, wall (in or up).

phrasal verb
shut off or out

To cut off from sight:

block (out), conceal, hide, obscure, obstruct, screen, shroud.

phrasal verb
shut out

1. To exclude from normal social or professional activities:

blackball, blacklist, boycott, ostracize.

2. To keep from being admitted, included, or considered:

bar, count out, debar, eliminate, except, exclude, keep out, rule out.

3. To rid one's mind of:

banish, cast out, dismiss, dispel.

phrasal verb
shut up

1. To confine within a limited area:

cage, coop (in or up), enclose, fence (in), immure, mew (up), pen, shut in, wall (in or up).

2. To enclose so as to hinder or prohibit escape:

closet, confine, imprison.

3. To cause to become silent:

hush, quiet, quieten, shush, silence, still.

Translations

verschließen

rinchiudere

w>shut in

vt sep → einschließen (also fig), → einsperren (inf) (→ prep obj, -to in +dat); close the door and shut the heat in → schließe die Tür, damit die Wärme drinnen bleibt

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