HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
← Back to search

Meaning of shut | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A1 Common
ʃʌt

Definitions

  1. The act or time of shutting; close.
  2. A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
    British, Shropshire, dialectal
  3. To prevent (an opponent) from scoring any runs or points.
  4. A door or cover; a shutter.
  5. To refuse to consider or acknowledge: administrators who shut their eyes to pervasive corruption.
  6. The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
  7. shut one's eyes to, to refuse to acknowledge; disregard; ignore.
  8. To move (a door, for example) in order to cover an opening:close.
  9. To confine within a limited area:cage, coop (in or up), enclose, fence (in), immure, mew (up), pen, shut up, wall (in or up).
    or
  10. To cut off from sight:block (out), conceal, hide, obscure, obstruct, screen, shroud.
  11. closed. gesluit مُغْلَق، مُقْفَل، موصَد затворен fechado zavřený geschlossen lukket κλειστόςcerrado suletud, kinni تعطيل suljettu ferméסגור बन्द zatvoren, zaklopljen zárva van tertutup lokaður chiuso 閉まった 닫혀진, 폐쇄된 uždarytas aizvērts; []slēgts tertutup dichtstengt, lukketzamknięty تېرول fechado închis закрытый, запертый zavretý zaprt zatvoren stängd ซึ่งถูกปิด kapalı 關閉的 закритий, зачинений بند khép kín 关闭的
  12. sluit يُغْلَق، يُقْفَل прекратявам работа encerrar zavřít stillegen lukke κλείνω, παύω να λειτουργώ, οριστικό κλείσιμο, λουκέτοcerrar, apagar, clausurar tegevust lõpetama, sulgema تعطيل شئن sulkea fermer; fermetureסגירה बन्द करना, गिराना, गिरा देना obustaviti rad bezár menutup hætta starfsemi chiudere; chiusura 休業する 휴업, 조업 정지 už(si)daryti slēgt (uzņēmumu); likvidēt penutupan stopzettenlukkezamykać, zostać zamkniętym تړل كيدل encerrar a închide закрывать zavrieť zapreti zatvoriti slå igen, läg...
  13. vt. cerrar; ___-in → encerrado-a;
  14. To move (a door or lid, for example) so as to block passage through an opening.

Equivalents

العربية أغلق
Deutsch zu
Español encerrado
Suomi kiinni umpeen
日本語
한국어
Svenska igen

Examples

“the shut of a door”
“Just then returnd at ſhut of Evening Flours.”

CEFR level

A1
Beginner
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
See all A1 English words →

See also

Learn this word in context

See shut used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course

Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free