Term Gallery logo

Meanings of shut in English

Portuguese
fechado
Catalan
tancat
Spanish
cerrado

Not open.

      Related terms
      fechado
      Catalan
      privar
      Spanish
      excluir

      Prevent from entering; shut out.

          privar
          Portuguese
          cerrar
          Catalan
          cloure
          Spanish
          concluir

          Move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut.

                Related terms
                cerrar
                Usage of shut in English
                1
                The shut-down of the UK's power station capacity extends beyond nuclear power.
                BBC
                2
                It was lifted up high above the town; shut in; utterly secluded.
                The Tree of Heaven
                3
                In effect, it shut the field against simple merit; anyhow, discouraged it.
                The Romance of a Pro-Consul / Being the Personal Life and Memoir...
                4
                Doors opened and shut; voices murmured; quick feet sounded on the stairs.
                Queed: A Novel
                5
                Jean flew to the window; it was shut and the shutters bolted.
                Pierre and Jean
                6
                The nurse pulled her in and shut the door of the house.
                In the Wilderness
                7
                From shut-in recluse mechanic to partying shamanic police detective within a year.
                Walking dead
                8
                Good night; for I shall shut myself in at the same time.
                The School for Husbands
                9
                You know the children were in the house and the door shut.
                The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw; Or, In the Wake of War
                10
                The great hills shut him in from the sight of the sea.
                The Squire of Sandal-Side: A Pastoral Romance
                11
                Josef received progress reports as his engineers explored the cold, shut-down facilities.
                Sisterhood of Dune
                12
                They had shut themselves up in the dining-room, in the yellow-ochreish light.
                Mary Olivier: a Life
                13
                It was rather dark in the flat, shut in as it was.
                Sister Carrie: A Novel
                14
                Then silence; and some one entered the room and shut the door.
                Nights in London
                15
                The arms shut up in the arsenals were distributed among the populace.
                World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France
                16
                He shut the door on the human animal in its lonely struggle.
                Clayhanger
                About this term
                More collocations
                Translations for shut
                Shut through the time
                Shut across language varieties
                Canada
                Common
                Australia
                Common
                United States of America
                Common
                More variants