shut
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Not open, for example a door or your eyes
- adjective
- /ʃʌt/
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- His eyes squeeze shut as he combs his fingers through his beard.
- the door is shut
And so long as that door is shut, he cannot get out.
- And so long as that door is shut, he cannot get out.
- I did that thing where my eyes were shut but I wasn't asleep.
- My mouth is frozen shut like Elsa.
- And then Calhous replies, as Israel is shut against the wilderness.
- So I'm gonna go with to keep my mouth shut because Yup.
- But once it was shut, you knew that it was shut.
- She the deal is if she kept her mouth shut, He's got the money.
- So I laid on that floor with my eyes shut thinking, right.
- But Reese seals the book shut with his magic.
- Doors that seem shut are almost always still open.
- But they're all like, gate it shut and it's the middle of the night.
- It taught me, like, to keep your gob shut and be.
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And these windows are more or less painted shut at this point.
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Keep it shut.
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And so long as that door is shut, he cannot get out.
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But once it was shut, you knew that it was shut.
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Doors that seem shut are almost always still open.
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And his eyes stay shut, even when I shout, "Get off her!"
Fiction book (1990) -
But basically they'll just be shut all the time, these two.
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How dare you come here now!" The door whoofed shut, cutting off her chimes.
Fiction book (1993) -
That door stays shut.
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The doors were firmly shut to keep the noise out.
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Etymology
Shut as an adjective means 'closed' and it comes from very old English words about closing; think of shutter, a small door for a window, to help you remember that shut means 'not open'.