shut adj

1 not open; "the door slammed shut" [syn: unopen, closed] [ant: open]

2 used especially of mouth or eyes; "he sat quietly with closed eyes"; "his eyes were shut against the sunlight" [syn: closed] [ant: open]

1 move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut; "Close the door"; "shut the window" [syn: close] [ant: open]

2 become closed; "The windows closed with a loud bang" [syn: close] [ant: open]

3 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" [syn: exclude, keep out, shut out] [ant: admit] [also: shutting]

English

Pronunciation

• /ʃʌt/
• /SVt/

• Rhymes: -ʌt

Etymology

Old English scyttan

Verb

1. To close, to stop from being open.

   • Please shut the door.
   • The light was so bright I had to shut my eyes.

2. To close, to stop being open.

   • If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut.

3. In the context of "transitive or intransitive, Commonwealth": To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.

   • The pharmacy is shut on Sunday.

Usage notes

Except when part of one of the derived terms listed below, almost every use of shut can be replaced by close. The reverse is not true -- there are many uses of close than cannot be replaced by shut.

Derived terms

phrasal verbs

• shut away
• shut down
• shut in
• shut off
• shut out
• shut up

single words and compounds

• shutdown, shut-down
• shut-eye
• shut-in
• shutout, shut-out
• shutter

idioms

• open and shut
• shut one's eyes to
• shut up shop
• shut your face
• shut your mouth
• shut your trap

Translations

• Dutch: sluiten, dichtklappen
• Esperanto: fermi
• Finnish: sulkea
• French: fermer
• German: schließen
• Indonesian: menutup, menyumpal, membungkam
• Irish: dún
• Japanese: 閉める (しめる, shimeru), 閉まる (しまる, shimaru), 閉じる (とじる, tojiru)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: داخستن

• Spanish: cerrar
• Telugu: మూయు (mooyu)
• Welsh: cau

Shut may refer to the following

• Shut Up, a interjection used to get somebody to stop talking
• Shutdown
• Shut eye, refers to sleep
• Shut Out
• Shut-in

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