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Shut   /ʃət/   Listen
Shut

verb
(past & past part. shut; pres. part. shutting)
1.
Move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut.  Synonym: close.  "Shut the window"
2.
Become closed.  Synonym: close.
3.
Prevent from entering; shut out.  Synonyms: exclude, keep out, shut out.  "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country"
adjective
1.
Not open.  Synonyms: closed, unopen.
2.
Used especially of mouth or eyes.  Synonym: closed.  "His eyes were shut against the sunlight"



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"Shut" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bearer of this, will be able to inform you much better than I can. * * * I am determined to finish what I have undertaken and then quit it. I am not in the best situation in the world, as I believe you'll think when I tell you I am not only shut out from all society and know nothing of what is carrying on in the world, but my stores are all expended, nor is there one thing to be bought here, pray send me last year's magazines and some English newspapers ...
— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond

... material purity of their women—a thing we at home wouldn't dream of even questioning. In New Ireland, for instance, I saw poor girls confined for four or five years in small wickerwork cages, where they're kept in the dark, and not even allowed to set foot on the ground on any pretext. They're shut up in these prisons when they're about fourteen, and there they're kept, strictly tabooed, till they're just going to be married. I went to see them myself; it was a horrid sight. The poor creatures were confined ...
— The British Barbarians • Grant Allen

... hundred miles. The fish, too, make a more considerable feature of the brookside, and the trout plumping in the shadow takes the ear. A stream should, besides, be narrow enough to cross, or the burn hard by a bridge, or we are at once shut out of Eden. The quantity of water need be of no concern, for the mind sets the scale, and can enjoy a Niagara Fall of thirty inches. Let us ...
— Essays of Travel • Robert Louis Stevenson

... fear a little chill in the garden!) have been against me. I tried to get Macbeth deferred but it could not be—and I think my only hope of enduring a long drive, and appearing as Lady Macbeth on Saturday evening with any approach to "undaunted mettle"—is to shut myself up in absolute silence and rest for several hours before we start. This, alas! means that it would be better for your young ladies (what is left of them, after brain fag and fish dinners!) to return to you by an ...
— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden

... a house, with viols hanging on the walls, a chamber-organ in one corner, a harpsichord in another, a clavichord laid across the arms of a chair, this music seems to carry one out of the world, and shut one in upon a house of dreams, full of intimate and ghostly voices. It is a house of peace, where music is still that refreshment which it was before it took fever, and became accomplice and not minister to the ...
— Plays, Acting and Music - A Book Of Theory • Arthur Symons


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