Shut Definition

shŭt

shuts, shutting

verb

shuts, shutting

To move (a door, window, lid, etc.) into a position that closes the opening to which it is fitted.

Webster's New World

To close by so moving its lid, cover, etc.

Shut a cash box, one's eyes, etc.

Webster's New World

To fasten (a door, etc.) securely, as with a bolt or catch.

Webster's New World

To close (an opening, passage, container, etc.)

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To prevent or forbid entrance to or exit from; close or bar.

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admit
open

noun

shuts

The act or time of shutting or closing; close.

Webster's New World

The connecting line between two pieces of welded metal.

Webster's New World

A door or cover; a shutter.

Wiktionary

(UK, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.

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adjective

Closed, fastened, or secured.

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closed
unopen

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open

idiom

shut (one's) eyes to

To refuse to consider or acknowledge:
administrators who shut their eyes to pervasive corruption.

American Heritage

shut down

to close by lowering
to descend and envelop or darken a place

Webster's New World

shut in

to surround or enclose; hem in

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shut of

rid of; free from

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shut off

to prevent the passage of (electricity, steam, etc.)
to prevent passage through (a road, faucet, etc.)

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Other Word Forms of Shut

Noun

Singular:

shut

Plural:

shuts

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Shut

shut (one's) eyes to
shut down
shut in
shut of
shut off
shut out
shut up

Origin of Shut

From Middle English shutten, shetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt, shut to, discharge a debt, pay off"), from Proto-Germanic *skutjanÄ…, *skuttjanÄ… (“to bar, bolt"), from Proto-Germanic *skuttÄ…, *skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keud- (“to drive, fall upon, rush"). Cognate with Dutch schutten (“to shut in, lock up"), German schützen (“to shut out, dam, protect, guard").

From Wiktionary
Variation of chute or shute (archaic, related to shoot) from Old English scÄ“otan.

From Wiktionary
Middle English shutten from Old English scyttan skeud- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition