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Shut   /ʃət/   Listen
verb
Shut  v. t.  (past & past part. shut; pres. part. shutting)  
1.
To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.
2.
To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade. "Shall that be shut to man which to the beast Is open?"
3.
To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. "Shut from every shore."
4.
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.
To shut in.
(a)
To inclose; to confine. "The Lord shut him in."
(b)
To cover or intercept the view of; as, one point shuts in another.
To shut off.
(a)
To exclude.
(b)
To prevent the passage of, as steam through a pipe, or water through a flume, by closing a cock, valve, or gate.
To shut out, to preclude from entering; to deny admission to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof.
To shut together, to unite; to close, especially to close by welding.
To shut up.
(a)
To close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house.
(b)
To obstruct. "Dangerous rocks shut up the passage."
(c)
To inclose; to confine; to imprison; to fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner. "Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed."
(d)
To end; to terminate; to conclude. "When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better."
(e)
To unite, as two pieces of metal by welding.
(f)
To cause to become silent by authority, argument, or force.


Shut  v. i.  (past & past part. shut; pres. part. shutting)  To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.
To shut up, to cease speaking. (Colloq.)


adjective
Shut  adj.  
1.
Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
2.
Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person. (Now dialectical or local, Eng. & U.S.)
3.
(Phon.)
(a)
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.
(b)
Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable.


noun
Shut  n.  
1.
The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door. "Just then returned at shut of evening flowers."
2.
A door or cover; a shutter. (Obs.)
3.
The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
Cold shut, the imperfection in a casting caused by the flowing of liquid metal upon partially chilled metal; also, the imperfect weld in a forging caused by the inadequate heat of one surface under working.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... that every young woman who had a village home to which she could withdraw, fled to it. Where horse or donkey was not available they escaped on foot, carrying the bundle which held their clothes, and the gates being shut at dark, numbers climbed down the steep incline of the city wall rather than risk the dangers which they feared might threaten them in ...
— The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's - The Story of the Work in Hwochow • A. Mildred Cable
... in order to make sure of a good draught through the house, and drew down the blinds at the back and shut the kitchen door to conceal his arrangements from casual observation. At the end he would open the door on the yard and so make a clean clear draught right through the house. He hacked at, and wedged off, the tread of a stair. ...
— The History of Mr. Polly • H. G. Wells
... surprising spectacle of a beautiful young woman receiving her lover at the point of a pistol, appeared monsieur le patron himself. They clustered in a group by the door. "I think," said Madame serenely, "that we have enough. Marie, the house is full; shut the door and lock it." The order was obeyed. "Now," went on the commanding voice from the bed, using French for the effective shutting out of the English boot-cleaner and night porter, "if you men will turn your backs, and Marie will hand me my dressing-gown, ...
— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone
... first made its acquaintance, this "College" (a large modernized building with corner turrets) still presented a stately front to the road. At the back was a square bell-tower covered from top to bottom with ivy, and a spacious garden shut in by high walls. It was then a boy's school, and the big garden used to echo with shouts and laughter on summer evenings. The bell-tower is the most ancient part of the building, and according to local tradition, ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 • Various
... in the room, I took the chief one aside and asked for information respecting this beautiful girl. All that he could supply was of the most vague kind. "We brought her," he said, "from the Hospital, by order of the lieutenant-general of police. There is no reason to suppose that she was shut up there for ...
— Manon Lescaut • Abbe Prevost


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