shut
Betekenis (English)
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- To close, to stop from being open.
- To close, to stop being open.
- To close (a business) temporarily.
- To confine in an enclosed area.
- To isolate, to close off from the world.
- To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
- To preclude, exclude.
Synonyms
shut eye
shut mouth
cover over
turn off
cork up
be shut
mure
close at hand
take by force
tightly closed
make narrower
locking-bar
make close
close by itself
coop in
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ʃʌt/
Etimologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English shutten, shetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skutjaną, *skuttijaną (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skuttą, *skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to drive, fall upon, rush”). Cognate with Dutch schutten (“to shut in, lock up”), Low German schütten (“to shut, lock in”), German schützen (“to shut out, dam, protect, guard”).
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