shut
v.v. to move something like a door or a window so that an opening is covered. You use this when you want to stop people or things from going through.
v. to move a door, lid, or similar object into a position that covers an opening. Often used interchangeably with 'close', though it carries a more forceful or final connotation in certain contexts.
Please shut the door when you leave the room.
The shopkeeper decided to shut the store early because of the heavy snowstorm.
After the final guest departed, she heard the heavy oak door shut with a definitive click that echoed through the empty hallway.
From Middle English schitten, schetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic skutjaną, skuttijaną (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic skuttą, skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to drive, fall upon, rush”). The Modern English word was originally a dialect form; the Old English word would have normally merged with shit. Cognate with Dutch schutten (“to shut in, lock up”), Low German schütten (“to shut, lock in”), German schützen (“to shut out, dam, protect, guard”).
Variation of chute or shute (archaic, related to shoot) from Old English scēotan.
The verb is transitive when used with an object like 'door', but can be intransitive when describing the action of the door itself.
He has shutted the windowHe has shut the windowThe verb 'shut' is irregular; its past tense and past participle forms are both 'shut', not 'shutted'.
- 01
keep one's mouth shut
To keep a secret; to refrain from speaking indiscreetly or carelessly; broadly, to refrain from speaking altogether.
- 02
put up or shut up
To desist from saying something unless one is able to prove it; to act in a manner that makes further talk unnecessary.
- 03
shut my mouth
An exclamation of surprise or astonishment.