Shut

Verb

 * 1)  To close, to stop from being open.
 * Please shut the door.
 * The light was so bright I had to shut my eyes.
 * 1)  To close, to stop being open.
 * If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut.
 * 1)  To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
 * The pharmacy is shut on Sunday.

Derived terms

 * shut away
 * shut down
 * shut in


 * shut off
 * shut out
 * shut up


 * shutdown, shut-down
 * shut-eye
 * shut-in


 * shutout, shut-out
 * shutter


 * open and shut
 * shut one's eyes to
 * shut up shop


 * shut your face
 * shut your mouth
 * shut your trap

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * alley, gennel, ginnel , gitty , jitty , passage, snicket , wynd

Adverbs for Shut
clamorously; obligingly; stealthily; inexorably; convulsively; sullenly; mysteriously; impatiently; drowsily; abruptly; cautiously.

Thesaurus
ban, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, blank, blind, blind-alley, block out, bolt, bolted, bottle up, box in, button, button up, cease, cecal, choke, choke off, choked, choked off, clap, close, close down, close off, close up, closed, conceal, confine, constrict, constricted, contain, contract, contracted, coop up, cover, cut, cut off, cut out, dead, dead-end, debar, disallow, discontinue, douse, eliminate, exclude, fasten, fastened, fence in, fold, fold up, gag, halt, hide, immure, imprison, incarcerate, intern, isolate, jail, keep away, keep in, keep out, keep quiet, key, kill, latch, leave off, lock, lock out, lock up, locked up, mask, mute, occlude, padlock, pen, plumb, prohibit, put to, quieten, screen, seal, seal off, seal up, seclude, secure, segregate, send to Coventry, separate, sequester, shush, shut down, shut in, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut up, silence, slam, snap, squeeze shut, squeezed shut, stifle, stop, strangle, strangulated, suspend, switch off, turn off, unopen, unopened, unvented, unventilated, veil, zip up, zipper

Etymology 1
From shutten:, shetten:, from  scyttan:, from, from , from. Cognate with schutten:,  schützen:.

Etymology 2
Variation of chute: or shute: (archaic, related to shoot:) from sceotan:.

Verb

 * Arabic: أغلق
 * Belarusian: зачыняць, зачыніць
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,  ,  關閉,  关闭
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: sluiten, dichtklappen
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: बंद करना
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: menutup, menyumpal, membungkam
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:,  , 閉じる
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: داخستن
 * Old English:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: zamykać / zamknąć
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: మూయు (mooyu)
 * Thai: งับ, หุบ
 * Ukrainian: зачиняти,
 * Vietnamese: đóng
 * Welsh:

Anagrams

 * huts
 * STHU
 * thus
 * tush