shut up

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.]

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shut up

vb (adverb)

1. (tr) to prevent all access to

2. (tr) to confine or imprison

3. Informal to cease to talk or make a noise or cause to cease to talk or make a noise: often used in commands

4. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Horse Racing) (intr) (of horses in a race) to cease through exhaustion from maintaining a racing pace

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	shut up - refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached" be quiet, belt up, button up, clam up, keep mum, dummy up, close up
	2.	shut up - place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe" lock away, put away, shut away, lock in, lock up, lock confine - prevent from leaving or from being removed
	3.	shut up - cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!" silence, still, hush, hush up, quieten shush - silence (someone) by uttering `shush!' conquer, inhibit, stamp down, suppress, subdue, curb - to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" lull, calm down - become quiet or less intensive; "the fighting lulled for a moment" shout down - silence or overwhelm by shouting pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten, hush - become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered" gag, muzzle - prevent from speaking out; "The press was gagged"
Adj.	1.	shut up - closely confined pent confined - not free to move about

Translations

? shut up

vt sep

house → verschließen ? shop

(= imprison) → einsperren; you can’t spend your whole life shut up in libraries → Sie können sich doch nicht Ihr ganzes Leben lang in Bibliotheken vergraben

(inf: = silence) → zum Schweigen bringen; that’ll soon shut him up → das wird ihm schon den Mund stopfen (inf); every time I try to say something she always tries to shut me up → jedes Mal, wenn ich etwas sagen will, fährt sie mir über den Mund

vi (inf) → den Mund or die Klappe halten (inf); shut up! → halt die Klappe! (inf); (= you can’t be serious) → das meinst du nicht im Ernst!

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