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as in to close
to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening
please shut the door when you leave
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Recent Examples of shut
Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2025
Just an hour away, in New Canaan, Connecticut, Philip Johnson stowed his private painting gallery beneath a hillock and shut it behind a steel door.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2025
Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
Your neck muscles feel rusted shut, unused for years.
—Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
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Verb
After the sixth grade center lost about a quarter of its enrollment between 2019 and 2022, the district shut the campus down at the beginning of the current school year and consolidated it with the Leadership Academy at Forest Oak Middle School, about a mile away.
—Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2025
Just an hour away, in New Canaan, Connecticut, Philip Johnson stowed his private painting gallery beneath a hillock and shut it behind a steel door.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
However, data engineering is not an open and shut case.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
Your neck muscles feel rusted shut, unused for years.
—Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
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Verb
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In 2015, Mexican food staple Tortilla Flats closed after 40 years, and two efforts to revive it as a cantina were short-lived, the Sacramento Business Journal reported.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
10 May 2025
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April 23 India downgrades diplomatic ties, closes the only functional land border crossing, and suspends a crucial water-sharing treaty that has survived two wars and a major border skirmish between the two countries.—
Riazat Butt,
Chicago Tribune,
10 May 2025
Verb
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Colorado-Dallas had seven games written all over it the moment that matchup was locked in, and that’s exactly what both bona fide Stanley Cup contenders have delivered us.—
Pierre LeBrun,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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The way Athena sees it, Bobby locked himself in a lab to die and forfeited the right to tell her how to live.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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Stock exchanges in Germany, France, Italy and Spain are closed.—
Ganesh Rao,Jenni Reid,Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
1 May 2025
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That’s on pavement with a professional on a closed track and a rolling start.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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He is very plugged into the world of change-makers in the incarceration realm.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Feb. 2025
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But the new generation of GaN chargers with more power and USB ports sometimes struggle to stay plugged in due to their size and weight.—
Andrew Liszewski,
The Verge,
7 Aug. 2024
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“Shut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shut. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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