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shut

(shŭt)

v. shut, shut·ting, shuts

v.tr.

a. To move (a door or lid, for example) so as to block passage through an opening.

b. To fasten with a lock, catch, or latch: shut the cabinet.

2. To block entrance to or exit from; close: shut a corridor.

3. To confine in a closed space: shut them in a cage.

4. To exclude from a closed space: shut the cats out of the house.

5. To fold up or bring together the parts of: shut the book.

6. To cause to stop operating: shut down a restaurant; a school that was shut for the vacation.

v.intr.

1. To move or become moved so as to block passage; close: a door that shuts by itself.

2. To stop operating, especially automatically: The electricity shuts off at midnight.

1. The act or time of shutting.

2. The line of connection between welded pieces of metal.

Phrasal Verbs:

shut off

1. To stop the flow or passage of; cut off: shut off the hot water by closing a valve.

2. To close off; isolate: loners who shut themselves off from the community.

shut out Sports

To prevent (an opponent) from scoring any runs or points.

shut up

1. To cause (someone) to stop speaking; silence.

2. To stop speaking.

Idiom:

shut (one's) eyes to

To refuse to consider or acknowledge: administrators who shut their eyes to pervasive corruption.

[Middle English shutten, from Old English scyttan; see skeud- in Indo-European roots.]

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Verb

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"

keep out, exclude, shut

excommunicate, unchurch, curse - exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"

lock out - prevent employees from working during a strike

prevent, keep - stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles"

ostracise, ostracize - avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me"

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

chiudere fuori escludere impedire

w>shut out

vt sep

person, oneself → aussperren (of aus); view → versperren; light, world → nicht hereinlassen (→ of in +acc); the child was shut out of the house → das Kind war ausgesperrt; don’t shut the sun out → lass doch die Sonne herein; draw the curtains to shut out the light → zieh die Vorhänge zu, damit das Licht nicht hereinfällt; the trees shut out the light → die Bäume nehmen das Licht weg; she closed the door to shut out the noise/draught (Brit) or draft (US) → sie schloss die Tür, damit kein Lärm hereinkam/damit es nicht zog

(fig) foreign competition → ausschalten; memory → loswerden, unterdrücken; (= censor) foreign news etc → unterdrücken; I can’t shut her out of my life → ich kann sie nicht von meinem Leben ausschließen

(US Sport) opponent → nicht zum Zuge kommen lassen; they shut the opponents out with two hits → sie schalteten ihre Gegner mit zwei Treffern aus; they shut them out 1-0 → sie warfen sie mit 1:0 aus dem Rennen

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