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  • 21shut-in — /shut in /, adj. 1. confined to one s home, a hospital, etc., as from illness. 2. Psychiatry. disposed to desire solitude; withdrawn; asocial. 3. (of an oil or gas well) temporarily sealed up. n. 4. a person confined by infirmity or disease to… …

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  • 22shut-in — shət .in n a person who is confined to home, a room, or bed because of illness or incapacity shut in .shət .in adj 1) confined to one s home or an institution by illness or incapacity 2) tending to avoid social contact: WITHDRAWN <diagnostic… …

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  • 23shut-in — person confined from normal social intercourse, 1904, from SHUT (Cf. shut) (v.) + IN (Cf. in) (adv.) …

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  • 24shut-in — shut ins N COUNT A shut in is someone who is ill for a long time, and has to stay in bed or at home. [AM] ...Meals on Wheels or similar programs that bring outside life to shut ins …

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  • 25shut up — shut (someone) up to stop talking or making noise, or to make someone do this. I wish you d shut up and listen. He called me a fool, and that shut me up …

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  • 26shut up — shut (someone/something) up to keep people or animals in a separate place. Every day she went up to a little room on the third floor where she shut herself up to work. At night we always kept the dog shut up in its cage …

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  • 27shut — I verb bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, bound, bung, button, cease, choke off, clasp, daudere, cloister, close, close down, coercere, cork, corral, cover, dam, discontinue, encase, enclose, end, envelop, enwrap, fasten, fence …

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  • 28shut in — shut the goats in for the night Syn: confine, enclose, impound, shut up, pen (in/up), fence in, immure, lock up/in, cage, imprison, intern, incarcerate, corral …

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  • 29shut — [v] close bar, batten down*, cage, close down, close up, confine, draw, drop the curtain*, enclose, exclude, fasten, fold, fold up, imprison, lock, push, put to, seal, secure, shut down, slam, wall off; concepts 85,121,160,206,208,304 Ant. open …

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  • 30shut up — [v] be or make quiet bottle up*, choke, dry up*, dummy up*, fall silent, gag, hold tongue*, hush, keep trap shut*, muzzle, pipe down*, quiet, quieten, quit chattering, shush*, silence, soft pedal*, still, stop talking; concept 77 Ant. speak, talk …

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