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shut in
Thesaurus| Verb | 1. | shut in - surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence"inclose, close in, enclosetuck, insert - fit snugly into; "insert your ticket into the slot"; "tuck your shirttail in"wall in, wall up - enclose with a wallbower, embower - enclose in a bowerborder, environ, surround, skirt, ring - extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"enshrine, shrine - enclose in a shrine; "the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral"encase, incase, case - enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud"swallow up, eat up, immerse, swallow, bury - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"frame, frame in, border - enclose in or as if in a frame; "frame a picture"glass in, glass - enclose with glass; "glass in a porch"bank - enclose with a bank; "bank roads"dike, dyke - enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water"encapsulate - enclose in a capsule or other small containerfence, fence in - enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard"cordon off, rope in, rope off - divide by means of a rope; "The police roped off the area where the crime occurred"casket - enclose in a casketcorral - enclose in a corral; "corral the horses"fort, fortify - enclose by or as if by a fortificationhedge in, hedge - enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; "hedge the property" |
shutverbTo move (a door, for example) in order to cover an opening:close.phrasal verb
shut inTo confine within a limited area:cage, coop (in or up), enclose, fence (in), immure, mew (up), pen, shut up, wall (in or up).phrasal verb
shut off or out
To cut off from sight:block (out), conceal, hide, obscure, obstruct, screen, shroud.phrasal verb
shut out1. To exclude from normal social or professional activities:blackball, blacklist, boycott, ostracize.2. To keep from being admitted, included, or considered:bar, count out, debar, eliminate, except, exclude, keep out, rule out.3. To rid one's mind of:banish, cast out, dismiss, dispel.phrasal verb
shut up1. To confine within a limited area:cage, coop (in or up), enclose, fence (in), immure, mew (up), pen, shut in, wall (in or up).2. To enclose so as to hinder or prohibit escape:closet, confine, imprison.3. To cause to become silent:hush, quiet, quieten, shush, silence, still.Translationsshut in
shut (someone or something) inTo force someone or something to be confined within an enclosed space. If you shut the dogs in for too long, they start could go crazy and start breaking things. The teacher shut us in the classroom until we completed the assignment.See also: shutshut inv. To confine someone or something in or as if in a closed space: My older brother shut me in the attic to frighten me. Shut in the dog when you leave.See also: shutshut in
Related to shut in: sundries, intermediate, ambition, GodspeedSynonyms for shut inverb surround completelySynonymsRelated Words- tuck
- insert
- wall in
- wall up
- bower
- embower
- border
- environ
- surround
- skirt
- ring
- enshrine
- shrine
- encase
- incase
- case
- swallow up
- eat up
- immerse
- swallow
- bury
- frame
- frame in
- glass in
- glass
- bank
- dike
- dyke
- encapsulate
- fence
- fence in
- cordon off
- rope in
- rope off
- casket
- corral
- fort
- fortify
- hedge in
- hedge
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