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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : shuht |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʃʌt |
Definition of shut up
Origin :- c.1400, "keep from view or use," from shut (v.) + up (adv.). Meaning "cause to stop talking" is from 1814; intransitive meaning "cease from speaking" is from 1840.
- verb be or make quiet
- What is the use of a beautiful face, if one must be shut up in her own apartment for ever?
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- I'm afraid Diablo'll shut up when he's pinched; his kind are apt to do that.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- He is now shut up in his apartment, whither I heard him go on leaving mine.
- Extract from : « Lady Susan » by Jane Austen
- But I can't get a divorce while I'm shut up in this house and watched.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
- If he could take that he might shut up Bowen and his force in Grand Gulf.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- But she would not be shut up in a convent—no, not by fifty aunts and a hundred step-fathers!
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- She was shut up in the house, unable to move; and there were none outside to hear her.
- Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
- Both buildings were shut up as tight as their state of repair permitted.
- Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
- When you're a twentieth part as rich as he is, you may shut up shop!
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- "Shut up, you big Swede, go and learn English," somebody said.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
Synonyms for shut up
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