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单词 shut up
释义

shut up

verb

shut up; shutting up; shuts up

transitive verb

: to cause (a person) to stop talking

intransitive verb

: to cease writing or speaking

Synonyms

  • belt up [British]
  • clam up
  • dry up
  • dummy up
  • hush
  • pipe down
  • quiet (down)
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Example Sentences

you have no right to tell the rest of us to shut up nothing I said would shut them up
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Word History

First Known Use

1814, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

shut up

verb

1
as in to dry up
to stop talking you have no right to tell the rest of us to shut up

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • dry up
  • hush
  • clam up
  • hold one's peace
  • dummy up
  • belt up
  • quiet (down)
  • pipe down
  • hold one's tongue
  • calm (down)
  • settle (down)
  • cool (down)
  • haw
  • hem

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • speak
  • talk
  • talk up
  • speak out
  • speak up
  • spout (off)
  • sound off
  • pipe up
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2
as in to shush
to stop the noise or speech of nothing I said would shut them up

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • shush
  • quiet
  • mute
  • silence
  • hush
  • settle
  • dumb
  • still
  • extinguish
  • squelch
  • quieten
  • quell

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • stir
  • agitate
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