shut out

shut  (sht)

v. shut, shut·ting, shuts

v.tr.

1. To move (a door or lid, for example) so as to block passage through an opening.

2. To block entrance to or exit from; close: shut a corridor.

3. To fasten with a lock, catch, or latch.

4. To confine in or as if in a closed space: shut them in a cage.

5. To exclude from or as if from a closed space: shut the cats out of the house.

6. To cause to stop operating: shut down a restaurant; a school that was shut for the vacation.

v.intr.

1. To move or become moved so as to block passage; close: a door that shuts by itself.

2. To stop operating, especially automatically: The electricity shuts off at midnight.

n.

1. The act or time of shutting.

2. The line of connection between welded pieces of metal.

Phrasal Verbs:

shut off

1. To stop the flow or passage of; cut off: shut off the hot water by closing a valve.

2. To close off; isolate: loners who shut themselves off from the community.

shut out Sports

To prevent (an opponent) from scoring any runs or points.

shut up

1. To cause (someone) to stop speaking; silence.

2. To stop speaking.

Idiom:

shut (one's) eyes to

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

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[Middle English shutten, from Old English scyttan; see skeud- in Indo-European roots.]

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

shut out - prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country" keep out, exclude, shut excommunicate, unchurch, curse - exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner" lock out - prevent employees from working during a strike prevent, keep - stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles" ostracise, ostracize - avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me"

Translations

? shut out

vt sep

person, oneself → aussperren (of aus); view → versperren; light, world → nicht hereinlassen (→ of in +acc); the child was shut out of the house → das Kind war ausgesperrt; don’t shut the sun out → lass doch die Sonne herein; draw the curtains to shut out the light → zieh die Vorhänge zu, damit das Licht nicht hereinfällt; the trees shut out the light → die Bäume nehmen das Licht weg; she closed the door to shut out the noise/draught (Brit) or draft (US) → sie schloss die Tür, damit kein Lärm hereinkam/damit es nicht zog

(fig) foreign competition → ausschalten; memory → loswerden, unterdrücken; (= censor) foreign news etc → unterdrücken; I can’t shut her out of my life → ich kann sie nicht von meinem Leben ausschließen

(US Sport) opponent → nicht zum Zuge kommen lassen; they shut the opponents out with two hits → sie schalteten ihre Gegner mit zwei Treffern aus; they shut them out 1-0 → sie warfen sie mit 1:0 aus dem Rennen