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  • 81shut in — Synonyms and related words: Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Timon of Athens, anchoress, anchorite, anchoritic, apoplectic, arthritic, ascetic, barred, bedridden invalid, beleaguer, beleaguered, beset, besiege, besieged, blockade, blockaded,… …

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  • 82shut up — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To cease speaking] Syn. be quiet, stop talking, quiet, hush, quit chattering, silence, dry up*. 2. [To close] Syn. padlock, close up, close down, close out, stop; see also close 4 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To… …

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  • 83shut in — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To confine within a limited area: cage, coop (in or up), enclose, fence (in), immure, mew (up), pen2, shut up, wall (in or up). See FREE. II verb See shut …

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  • 84shut — [OE] Shut comes ultimately from the same prehistoric Germanic base (*skaut , *skeut , *skut ‘project’) that produced English shoot, and its underlying etymological reference is to the ‘shooting’ of a bolt across a door to fasten it. Its immediate …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 85shut — See: keep one s mouth shut, put up or shut up, close one s eyes …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 86shut up — PHR V ERG If someone shuts up or if someone shuts them up, they stop talking. You can say shut up to tell a person to stop talking. [V P] Just shut up, will you?... [V P] I don t feel like shutting up; I think statements about injustice should be …

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  • 87shut — See cut and shut door shut …

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  • 88shut up — in. to be quiet. □ Shut up and listen! □ Shut up yourself …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 89shut — [OE] Shut comes ultimately from the same prehistoric Germanic base (*skaut , *skeut , *skut ‘project’) that produced English shoot, and its underlying etymological reference is to the ‘shooting’ of a bolt across a door to fasten it. Its immediate …

    Word origins

  • 90shut-in — 1. adjective a) Confined to a location, as by infirmity or illness. b) Introverted. 2. noun A person confined to a location, as by illness or infirmity. He visit …

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