1
as in drying up
to stop talking
you have no right to tell the rest of us to shut up
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2
as in shushing
to stop the noise or speech of
nothing I said would shut them up
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Recent Examples of shutting up
They were made to relish going on the road and shutting up an American crowd.
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Brody Miller, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Sky News is shutting up shop on its dedicated business show after more than a decade.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
Brody Miller, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Sky News is shutting up shop on its dedicated business show after more than a decade.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shutting up
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The health of the debt market is in sharp contrast to that of regional stock exchanges, where indices are lagging the US and emerging markets and the flow of IPOs is drying up.—
Dominic Dudley,
semafor.com,
30 Dec. 2025
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On Saturday, funding for SNAP federal food assistance drying up.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
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After once rising from her seat to scold a man recording the broadcast on his phone to shushing in-studio viewers during an interview with Zohran Mamdani, Whoopi Goldberg just wrote another chapter in her comical relationship with The View's studio audience.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Jan. 2026
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The snow was shushing off the roof of the garage and down on the driveway.—
Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
3 Dec. 2025
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Trump’s immigration policies don’t make sense as a pro-worker agenda, but do make sense as a way of silencing dissent and keeping out nonwhite immigrants.—
Gilad Edelman,
The Atlantic,
5 Jan. 2026
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Students have been instructed to continue sheltering in place until further notice, locking doors and silencing phones.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
13 Dec. 2025
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The newsroom union claims the change is throttling staff diversity and muting the magazine’s progressive political bent.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Nov. 2025
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And Democrats will remain the side fond of muting dissent.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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That can include lowering interest rates, reducing monthly payments, extending repayment timelines or, in some cases, settling for less than the full amount owed.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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The warmth also helps any contaminants drain out, rather than settling at the bottom of cold oil.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2026
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Dave Chappelle – Live July 14, 2023 Comedy at this scale functions strangely — a stadium quieting itself to hear one person think out loud.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Dec. 2025
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Gilma Pereda was having trouble quieting her brain.—
Katie Lauer,
Mercury News,
4 Dec. 2025
Verb
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There are a lot of ways to declutter out there—the pile method and the discernment method are two of them, and now, everyone’s hushing their house.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
28 Dec. 2025
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Unfortunately, the austerity and elegance of the downstairs dining room acts as a dampener, hushing the salad’s brashness and sapping much of the fun.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2025
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The Fort Worth Fire Department assisted with extinguishing the blaze, according to the post.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Jan. 2026
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The initial response included extinguishing the fire on the sulfur car and deploying water to cool and solidify the leaking material, effectively plugging the leak.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
31 Dec. 2025
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“Shutting up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shutting%20up. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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