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Definition of Shut

Shut of Shut To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth. To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book. To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard. Closed or fastened; as, a shut door. Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person. Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g. Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are. The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door. A door or cover; a shutter. The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding. Related Definitions: Abruptly, Act, Always, And, Are, As, Bar, Become, Blockade, Book, Bringing, By, Clear, Close, Closed, Closure, Complete, Consonant, Country, Cover, Cut, Door, Egress, English, Entrance, Exclude, Fastened, Fold, Following, Forbid, Formed, Free, Gate, Get, Hand, Hard, Hinder, In, Ingress, Into, It, Itself, Line, Metal, Mouth, Mute, Nose, Of, Off, One, Or, Out, Over, Passage, Person, Place, Preclude, Prohibit, Remaining, Rid, Same, Sharply, Short, Shut, Shutter, Shutting, So, Stopped, Syllable, The, Time, To, Together, Two, United, Welding, Where, With

Shut Quotations The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin A book that is shut is but a block. Thomas Fuller The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. Benjamin Franklin Men shut their doors against a setting sun. William Shakespeare Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw

Shut Translations shut in Afrikaans is toe, toemaak shut in Danish is lukket, lukke shut in Dutch is dichtmaken, sluiten, dichtdoen shut in Finnish is sulkea shut in French is fermer shut in Italian is chiudere shut in Portuguese is fechar, fechado shut in Spanish is cerrar, cerrado

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