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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
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

Synonyms for shut up

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