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Definition of shut : 1. A door or cover; a shutter.
2. Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
3. Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, always are.
4. Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g.
5. of Shut
6. Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.
7. The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.
8. The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
9. To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.
10. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.
11. To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.
12. To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
13. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.

Synonyms:

keep out, shut down, closed in, cast out, eliminate, include, blackball, come together, eject, squinched, boycott, blinking, take out, conclude, compressed, unopen, debar, squinting, winking, dispel, turf out, dismiss, close up, shut out, fill up, except, leave out, exclude, blacklist, close down, ostracize, keep, open, banish, rule out, turn out, accept, unsympathetic, bar, omit, boot out, fold, count out, tight, chuck out, leave off

close (part of speech: verb)

fasten, secure, barricade, jam, join, bolt, stop, close, seal, latch, lock, block

closed (part of speech: verb)

barricaded, hermetic, jammed, fastened, obstructed, corked, latched, closed, locked, sealed, secured, stopped, plugged, bolted, blocked, choked, joined

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