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Definition of Shut up
1. Verb. Refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent. "The children shut up when their father approached"
Antonyms: Open Up
2. Adjective. Closely confined.
3. Verb. Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape. "She locked her jewels in the safe"
Generic synonyms: Confine
Derivative terms: Lockup
4. Verb. Cause to be quiet or not talk. "Please silence the children in the church!"
Specialized synonyms: Shush, Calm Down, Lull, Shout Down, Gag, Muzzle
Causes: Hush
Generic synonyms: Conquer, Curb, Inhibit, Stamp Down, Subdue, Suppress
Related verbs: Hush, Pipe Down, Quiesce, Quiet, Quiet Down, Quieten
Derivative terms: Hush, Silence, Silence, Silence, Silencer, Silencer, Still
Also: Hush Up
Antonyms: Louden
Definition of Shut up
1. Verb. (transitive) To close (a building) so that no one can enter. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To terminate (a business). ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To enclose (a person, animal or thing) in a room or other place so that it cannot leave. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To put (an object) in a secure enclosed place. ¹
5. Verb. (ergative) Of a person, to stop talking or (of a person or thing) making noise. ¹
6. Verb. (intransitive colloquial used only in the imperative) I don't believe it!, no way! ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shut Up
Literary usage of Shut up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"That the constables see every house shut up, and to be attended with watchmen,
which may keep in, and minister necessaries to them at their own charges,1 if ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"To SHUT up. To close; to make impervious; to make impassable, or impossible to
be entered or quitted. Up is sometimes little more th;m ..."
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