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Shut up   /ʃət əp/   Listen
Shut up

verb
1.
Refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent.  Synonyms: be quiet, belt up, button up, clam up, close up, dummy up, keep mum.  Antonym: open up.
2.
Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape.  Synonyms: lock, lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away.  "She locked her jewels in the safe"
3.
Cause to be quiet or not talk.  Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, silence, still.  Antonym: louden.
adjective
1.
Closely confined.  Synonym: pent.






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"Shut up" Quotes from Famous Books



... not shut up their guns and put a stop to this?' asked the officer, and his platoon fervently echoed the ...
— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable

... "Shut up, you implicating tadpole! Wasn't I ordhered to hold convarse wid me prisoner? Spake win Ye're spoke ter and be civil, Or I'll jolt the teeth ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield

... King. Shut up again the prisons, bid my treasurer Not give three farthings out-hang all the culprits, Guilty or not—no matter.—Ravish virgins: Go bid the schoolmasters whip all their boys! Let lawyers, parsons, and physicians loose, To rob, impose on, and ...
— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding

... and you must be aware of it. I felt ashamed to see you among them. What are you doing at a place like this? Why have you shut up your house?" ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing

... principles, as a plan of salvation provided for the whole world, and designed to unite Jews and Gentiles in one harmonious body, on the common platform of faith in Christ. He first shows that the Gentiles are under the dominion of sin (chap. 1:18-32), and the Jews also (chap. 2), so that both alike are shut up to salvation by grace. Chap. 3. He connects the gospel plan of salvation immediately with the Old Testament by showing that Abraham, the father of the Israelitish people, was justified by faith, not by the works of the law or any outward rite; so that he is the father of all who walk in the steps ...
— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows


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