shut

Senso (Inglese)

1. To close, to stop from being open.
2. To close, to stop being open.
3. To close (a business) temporarily.
4. To confine in an enclosed area.
5. To isolate, to close off from the world.
6. To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
7. To preclude, exclude.

closed

cover

shut eye

shut mouth

cover over

turn off

cork up

be shut

mure

close at hand

take by force

tightly closed

up against

winding-up

make narrower

forefend

locking-bar

make close

close by itself

coop in

Frequenza

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ʃʌt/

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”).