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What does the word shut mean?

    Part of speech: verb transitive

  • To close; stop; obstruct.

    • Part of speech: verb transitive

  • To bar out; excude.

    • Part of speech: verb transitive

  • To keep in; confine.

    • Part of speech: verb transitive

  • To obscure; hide.

    • Part of speech: verb

  • To be closed.

    • Part of speech: adjective

  • Made fast or closed.

Usage examples for shut

  1. He had shut his eyes to it then. – The Belovéd Traitor by Frank L. Packard
  2. Mr. Whitford, I shut my eyes and say Yes. – The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith by George Meredith
  3. You ought to have shut your eyes, then. – Home Scenes, and Home Influence A Series of Tales and Sketches by T. S. Arthur
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