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Grammar : Noun
Spell : shuht-out
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃʌtˌaʊt

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Définition of shutout

Origin :
  • also shut-out, 1889 in baseball sense, from verbal phrase shut out "exclude from a situation" (late 14c.; from 1881 in the sports score sense), from shut (v.) + out (adv.). Middle English had a verb outshut "to shut out, exclude," mid-15c.
  • As in nothing/nothingness : noun emptiness, nonexistence
  • As in rout : noun overwhelming defeat
  • As in zero : noun nothing
  • As in nothing : noun emptiness
Example sentences :
  • The net result was a shutout for Dallas and five runs for New York.
  • Extract from : « News Writing » by M. Lyle Spencer
  • He lies buried in his death-city Ravenna, "shutout from my native shores."
  • Extract from : « The Nuttall Encyclopaedia » by Edited by Rev. James Wood

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