SHUTS Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

shuts

verb

present tense third-person singular of shut

as in closes

to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening please shut the door when you leave

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as in closes (down)

to stop the operations of shut both stores for a week

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Recent Examples of shuts But Wilson pulled up anyway — because, sometimes, the best shot on the court is the one that shuts a team up. — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026 Your middle schooler walks in, drops her backpack and shuts the bedroom door. — Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2026 There’s a brief pause, and then my phone goes haywire, inundated with Bluetooth signal spam — new Airpods connections, contact requests, an avalanche of popups that make my phone basically unusable until Hedge shuts it off. — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026 Both failures are expensive in flood response, since a miss floods a warehouse and a false alarm shuts one down for no reason. — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 When Rhaenyra learns Helaena jumped to her death at the episode’s conclusion, Rhaenyra shuts the window, snuffing out the last of her compassion for her father’s other children. — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026 If your unit shuts itself off during a heat wave, never flip the breaker back on more than once. — Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 4 Aug. 2026 Guests can doff their drawers the moment the door shuts behind them. — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026 Smart lighting energy automation shuts that waste down without asking you to remember anything, and the tools to set it up have gotten cheap enough that a single afternoon can pay off for years. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson july 31, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026

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closes

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Horse racing’s biggest star closes from dead last, but Blame holds off the 6-year-old mare and wins the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic under the lights Churchill Downs.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Tesla exit The Tesla sale closes another highly profitable bet for Scottish Mortgage, which invests globally in a mix of public and private high-growth companies, typically with a longer-term investment view.

— Hugh Leask, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026