shut — meaning, definition (adjective, verb)

adj

Etymology: From Middle English schitten, schetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skutjaną, *skuttijaną (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skuttą, *skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to drive, fall upon, rush”). The Modern English word was originally a dialect form; the Old English word would have normally merged with shit. Cognate with Dutch schutten (“to shut in, lock up”), Low German schütten (“to shut, lock in”), German schützen (“to shut out, dam, protect, guard”).

Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
“A shut door barred our way into the house.”
“The door banged shut with a breeze.”
Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
“Phone lines are now shut.”
Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
“Banks are shut on bank holidays.”
“The museum is shut for the Christmas holidays.”
Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
“He mind is shut to new ideas.”
Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
Synonym of close.
Synonym of close.
“Whenever a syllable is formed with a long, that is an open vowel, they account the syllable long; and whenever formed with a short, that is a shut vowel, they reckon it short.”
Archaic form of shot (“discharged, cleared, rid of something”).
“When he asked her, she said, she thanked God he was dead, (the woman was glad to get shut of him) and said he died of an ague and fever.”

noun

Etymology: Variation of chute or shute (archaic, related to shoot) from Old English scēotan.

A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English schitten, schetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skutjaną, *skuttijaną (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skuttą, *skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to drive, fall upon, rush”). The Modern English word was originally a dialect form; the Old English word would have normally merged with shit. Cognate with Dutch schutten (“to shut in, lock up”), Low German schütten (“to shut, lock in”), German schützen (“to shut out, dam, protect, guard”).

To close, in various senses.
“Please shut the door.”
“The light was so bright I had to shut my eyes.”
To close, in various senses.
“He has shut his mind to new ideas.”
To close, in various senses.
“They generally shut the museum each day at 6 pm.”
“The supermarket shuts at eight o'clock.”
To close, in various senses.
“We are shutting the phone lines at 9 pm.”
“They shut the airport because of a bomb scare.”
To close, in various senses.
“Phone lines will shut in ten minutes.”
To close, in various senses.
“Shut the file when you have finished reading data.”
“This app has a bug: when you try to sort a large spreadsheet, it shuts.”
To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
“He's just gone and shut his finger in the door!”
To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.
“I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out.”
To isolate, to close off from the world.
“Now, sometimes in my sorrow shut, ⁠Or breaking into song by fits; ⁠Alone, alone, to where he sits, The Shadow cloak’d from head to foot Who keeps the keys of all the creeds, ⁠I wander, often falling lame, […]”
To preclude, exclude.
“shut from every shore”
simple past and past participle of shut

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