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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	1.	shut off - stem the flow of; "shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation" close off cease, discontinue, lay off, quit, stop, give up - put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
	2.	shut off - isolate or separate; "She was shut off from the friends" close off divide, separate - make a division or separation curtain off - separate by means of a curtain
	3.	shut off - block off the passage through; "We shut off the valve" block off, close off barricade, block, block up, blockade, block off, bar, stop - render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"

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

يَبْتَعِد، يَنْفَصِل عَنيوقِف

uzavřítuzavřít se

lukke sig ude

abschließen abstellen

couper fermer

einangra sig fráloka/skrúfa fyrir

chiudere

kapatmaksoyutlamakuzak tutmak

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w>shut off

vt sep

gas, water, electricity → abstellen; light, engine → ab- or ausschalten; street → (ab)sperren; the kettle shuts itself off → der Wasserkessel schaltet von selbst ab

(= isolate) → (ab)trennen; I feel very shut off on this island → ich fühle mich auf dieser Insel sehr abgeschlossen; I feel shut off from my friends/civilization → ich komme mir von meinen Freunden/der Zivilisation abgeschnitten vor; to shut oneself off (from something) → sich abkapseln (von etw)

vi → abschalten; the heater shuts off automatically → das Heizgerät schaltet (sich) automatisch ab

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shut

(ʃat) – present participle ˈshutting: past tense, past participle shut – verb

1. to move (a door, window, lid etc) so that it covers or fills an opening; to move (a drawer, book etc) so that it is no longer open. Shut that door, please!; Shut your eyes and don't look.

2. to become closed. The window shut with a bang.

3. to close and usually lock (a building etc) eg at the end of the day or when people no longer work there. The shops all shut at half past five; There's a rumour that the factory is going to be shut.

4. to keep in or out of some place or keep away from someone by shutting something. The dog was shut inside the house.

adjective

closed.

shut down (of a factory etc) to close or be closed, for a time or permanently: There is a rumour going round that the factory is going to (be) shut down (noun ˈshut-down)

shut off

1. to stop an engine working, a liquid flowing etc. I'll need to shut the gas off before I repair the fire.

2. to keep away (from); to make separate (from). He shut himself off from the rest of the world.

shut up

1. to (cause to) stop speaking. Tell them to shut up!; That'll shut him up!

2. to close and lock. It's time to shut up the shop.

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