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S0379200 (shŭt)v. shut, shut·ting, shuts v.tr.1. a. To move (a door or lid, for example) so as to block passage through an opening.b. To fasten with a lock, catch, or latch: shut the cabinet.2. To block entrance to or exit from; close: shut a corridor.3. To confine in a closed space: shut them in a cage.4. To exclude from a closed space: shut the cats out of the house.5. To fold up or bring together the parts of: shut the book.6. To cause to stop operating: shut down a restaurant; a school that was shut for the vacation.v.intr.1. To move or become moved so as to block passage; close: a door that shuts by itself.2. To stop operating, especially automatically: The electricity shuts off at midnight.n.1. The act or time of shutting.2. The line of connection between welded pieces of metal.Phrasal Verbs: shut off1. To stop the flow or passage of; cut off: shut off the hot water by closing a valve.2. To close off; isolate: loners who shut themselves off from the community. shut out Sports To prevent (an opponent) from scoring any runs or points. shut up1. To cause (someone) to stop speaking; silence.2. To stop speaking.Idiom: shut (one's) eyes to To refuse to consider or acknowledge: administrators who shut their eyes to pervasive corruption.

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[Middle English shutten, from Old English scyttan; see skeud- in Indo-European roots.]

shut up

vb (adverb) 1. (tr) to prevent all access to2. (tr) to confine or imprison3. informal to cease to talk or make a noise or cause to cease to talk or make a noise: often used in commands4. (Horse Racing) (intr) (of horses in a race) to cease through exhaustion from maintaining a racing pace

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	shut up - refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached"be quiet, belt up, button up, clam up, keep mum, dummy up, close up
	2.	shut up - place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"lock away, put away, shut away, lock in, lock up, lockconfine - prevent from leaving or from being removed
	3.	shut up - cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"silence, still, hush, hush up, quietenshush - silence (someone) by uttering `shush!'conquer, inhibit, stamp down, suppress, subdue, curb - to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires"lull, calm down - become quiet or less intensive; "the fighting lulled for a moment"shout down - silence or overwhelm by shoutingpipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten, hush - become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"gag, muzzle - prevent from speaking out; "The press was gagged"
Adj.	1.	shut up - closely confinedpentconfined - not free to move about

shut

verbTo 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.

Translations

住口关店关门安静闭嘴

shut

(ʃat) – present participle ˈshutting: past tense, past participle shut – verb1. to move (a door, window, lid etc) so that it covers or fills an opening; to move (a drawer, book etc) so that it is no longer open. Shut that door, please!; Shut your eyes and don't look. 關上 关上，闭上 2. to become closed. The window shut with a bang. 被關上 关上3. to close and usually lock (a building etc) eg at the end of the day or when people no longer work there. The shops all shut at half past five; There's a rumour that the factory is going to be shut. 關閉 关闭4. to keep in or out of some place or keep away from someone by shutting something. The dog was shut inside the house. 禁閉 禁闭 adjective closed. 關閉的 关闭的shut down (of a factory etc) to close or be closed, for a time or permanently: There is a rumour going round that the factory is going to (be) shut down (noun ˈshut-down) 停業 关闭，倒闭 shut off1. to stop an engine working, a liquid flowing etc. I'll need to shut the gas off before I repair the fire. 關掉 关掉2. to keep away (from); to make separate (from). He shut himself off from the rest of the world. 隔絕，隔離 隔绝shut up1. to (cause to) stop speaking. Tell them to shut up!; That'll shut him up! (使某人)住嘴 安静，住口 2. to close and lock. It's time to shut up the shop. 打烊 关店（门）

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