shut up
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
shut up
- (transitive) To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
- (transitive) To terminate (a business).
- (transitive) To enclose (a person, animal or thing) in a room or other place so that it cannot leave.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde:
- "You know the doctor's ways, sir," replied Poole, "and how he shuts himself up. Well, he's shut up again in the cabinet; and I don't like it, sir—I wish I may die if I like it. Mr. Utterson, sir, I'm afraid."
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde:
- (transitive) To put (an object) in a secure enclosed place.
- (ergative) Of a person, to stop talking or (of a person or thing) making noise.
- You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music – would you mind shutting up?
- He was blathering on about something, but I managed to shut him up.
- (intransitive, colloquial, used only in the imperative) I don't believe it!, no way!
- I got accepted to Yale! – Shut up, really? That's awesome!
- (transitive, slang, dated) To murder, kill
- I just heard that your wife was trying to shut you up for the insurance money.
- (close (a building)) close off, seal up
- (terminate (a business)) end, terminate, wind up
- (enclose (a person, animal or thing) in a room so that it cannot leave) lock in, seal in
- (put (an object) in a secure enclosed place) lock up, stash, stash away
- (to stop (a person) from talking or (a person or thing) making noise) hush, quieten, shush, silence
- (to stop talking or making noise) be quiet, be silent, fall silent, hush, quieten down, shush; (in the imperative): be quiet!, can it!, hush!, put a sock in it!, quiet!, sh!, shush!, shut it!, shut your face! (impolite), shut your mouth! (impolite), shaddap, silence!, st!, STFU; see also Thesaurus:stop talking
- (I don't believe it) get out!, never!, no!, no way!, yeah right!, you don't say!
- (close (a building)) open, open up, reopen
- (terminate (a business)) establish, set up, start, start up
- (enclose (a person, animal or thing) in a room so that it cannot leave) release
- Russian: запере́ть
- Spanish: cerrar, clausurar
- French: faire taire, taire
- German: Mund stopfen, shut someone's trap: Maul stopfen
- Italian: zittire
- Portuguese: calar
- Russian: заткну́ть
- Spanish: callar
- French: se taire
- German: den Mund halten
- Italian: fare silenzio, stare, tacere
- Portuguese: calar-se, calar a boca
- Russian: заткну́ться
- Spanish: callarse, cerrar la boca
- German: halt den Mund, halt dein Maul, halt die Fresse, halt die Klappe (sg.), halt's Maul, halt den Rand
- Italian: stai zitto, taci, zitto informal and singular, state zitti, tacete, zitti, silenzio
- Portuguese: cala a boca, cale-se, cale a boca, cala-te
- Russian: заткни́сь
- Spanish: cállate la boca, cállate, cierra la boca, callad, cállanse, cállese, silencio
- French: arrête !
- Italian: ma va!
- Portuguese: mentira!
shut up
- Closed up or off, as in a building that no one is to enter.
- 2010. Jem (And Sam) ↗. Ferdinand Mount.
- She did not come to Court, but she must have been taken to Montagu's house, for the Clerkenwell house was all shut up and was to be sold.
- 1865. The Wisconsin Farmer, and Northwestern Cultivator, Volume 17 ↗. Pg. 75.
- Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing.
- 1880. An Earnest Trifler ↗. Mary Aplin Sprague. Pg. 166.
- Beaudeck is a very shut-up place.
- 2010. Jem (And Sam) ↗. Ferdinand Mount.
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