Synonyms for shut up

Grammar : Verb

Spell : shuht

Phonetic Transcription : ʃʌt

Top 10 synonyms for shut up

Other synonyms for the word shut up

Définition 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

Example sentences :

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

Antonyms for shut up

speak
talk

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