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      shut
      noun
      The act or time of shutting; close.
      A door or cover; a shutter.
      The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
      (British, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
      verb
      (transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses.
      (transitive, intransitive) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
      (transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
      (transitive, intransitive, chiefly British) To close (a business or venue) temporarily or permanently.
      (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
      (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
      (ergative, computing, more usually 'close') To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
      (transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
      (transitive) To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.
      (transitive) To isolate, to close off from the world.
      (transitive) To preclude, exclude.
      adjective
      Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
      Physically sealed, obstructed, folded together, etc.
      Not available for use or operation.
      (of a business or venue) Not operating or conducting trade; not allowing entrance to visitors or the public.
      Not receptive.
      (especially sports) Of a club, bat or other hitting implement, angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
      (heraldry) Synonym of close.
      Archaic form of shot (“discharged, cleared, rid of something”). [Tired, weary.]
      (linguistics, phonetics, archaic) Synonym of close.
      Synonyms for shut
      closedadjboltedvshushvunopenedadjexcludev
      Words related to shut
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