Meaning

(transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses.
2. (transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
3. (transitive) To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.
4. (transitive) To isolate, to close off from the world.
5. (transitive) To preclude, exclude.
6. simple past and past participle of shut
7. Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
8. (heraldry) Synonym of close.

Example Sentences

He's just gone and shut his finger in the door!

I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out.

Now, sometimes in my sorrow shut, ⁠Or breaking into song by fits; ⁠Alone, alone, to where he sits, The Shadow cloak’d from head to foot Who keeps the keys of all the creeds, ⁠I wander, often falling lame, […]

shut from every shore

Whenever a syllable is formed with a long, that is an open vowel, they account the syllable long; and whenever formed with a short, that is a shut vowel, they reckon it short.

When he asked her, she said, she thanked God he was dead, (the woman was glad to get shut of him) and said he died of an ague and fever.

the shut of a door

Just then returnd at ſhut of Evening Flours.

Word Forms

• shuts
• shutting
• shut
• shutten

Synonyms for shut

Antonyms for shut

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When Should You Use Shut?

Use shut when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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