shut in

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

shut in - surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence" inclose, close in, enclose tuck, insert - fit snugly into; "insert your ticket into the slot"; "tuck your shirttail in" wall in, wall up - enclose with a wall bower, embower - enclose in a bower border, environ, surround, skirt, ring - extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" enshrine, shrine - enclose in a shrine; "the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral" encase, incase, case - enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud" swallow up, eat up, immerse, swallow, bury - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" frame, frame in, border - enclose in or as if in a frame; "frame a picture" glass in, glass - enclose with glass; "glass in a porch" bank - enclose with a bank; "bank roads" dike, dyke - enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water" encapsulate - enclose in a capsule or other small container fence, fence in - enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard" cordon off, rope in, rope off - divide by means of a rope; "The police roped off the area where the crime occurred" casket - enclose in a casket corral - enclose in a corral; "corral the horses" fort, fortify - enclose by or as if by a fortification hedge in, hedge - enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; "hedge the property"

Translations

? shut in

vt sep → einschließen (also fig), → einsperren (inf) (→ prep obj, -to in +dat); close the door and shut the heat in → schließe die Tür, damit die Wärme drinnen bleibt