The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - shutv.

1) close, fasten, secure, shut up; lock, bolt, seal: Come in and shut the door. 2) shut down. close down, discontinue, cease, suspend, halt, leave off, shut up; switch or turn or shut off, stop: We shut down operations at the Enfield factory last week. Make sure you shut down the machinery before leaving. 3) shut in. a confine, seclude, keep in, pen, fence in, secure: We shut the dog in before we went out. b See 6, (a) , below. 4) shut off. a switch or turn off, shut down, Colloq kill, douse, cut (off) : They shut off the lights while I was shaving. b separate, isolate, seclude, segregate, sequester, bar, shut out, cut off, send to Coventry: The more violent cases are shut off in another wing. c close (off) , shut (down) : To save on heating, we shut off part of the house in the winter. 5) shut out. a exclude, eliminate, bar, debar, lock out, ban, keep out or away, disallow, prohibit: Aliens without work permits are shut out from employment. We shut out all hooligans and rowdies. b keep out, screen, exclude, block out, cut out: This window shade shuts out the direct sunlight. c screen, mask, hide, conceal, veil, cover: The house is shut out from view by the hedge. 6) shut up. a confine, shut in, coop (up) , cage (in) , bottle up, box in; imprison, jail, incarcerate, intern, immure: People suspected of being subversives were shut up during the war. b silence, keep quiet, stifle, mute, gag, shush, Chiefly Brit quieten: As soon as Colin wants to say something, Sidonie shuts him up. c See 1, above. d See 2, above. --adj. 7) closed (up) , sealed (up) , locked (up) , bolted, fastened: There is not much hope of penetrating their shut minds on this issue.