Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Shut (-ting, -s)
shun (shunned, shunning, -s)shutter
shut (-ting, -s), v. [OE scyttan, obstruct, shut up.] (webplay: bolts, door, eye, eyes, faith, gate).
- Close; bring together the outward covering parts.
- Close itself; be closed.
- Deny entrance by closing; hinder coming in or going out by means of.
- Exclude; preclude.
- Make inaccessible.
- Confine; prevent; stop.
- Cease; suspend an operation.
- Fold; gather together.
- Phrase. “Shut down”: close by lowering.
- Phrase. “Shut up”: confine; imprison.
- Phrase. “Shut the door”: stop communication.
- Phrase. “Shut down”: suppress.
- Phrase. “Shut the Door”: reject association with others.
- Phrase. “Shut out”: exclude; keep away; prohibit entrance; refuse admittance; deny admission to.
- Phrase. “Shut in”: confine.
- Phrase. “Shut up”: confine by legal or moral restraint.
- Phrase. “Shut the Door”: leave this world.
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