shut sth in sth

— phrasal verb with shut

/ʃʌt/ verb [I or T] (present tense shutting, past tense and past participle shut)

Definition

› to catch part of your body or an object inside a device or container when it closes: Steve was off work for a week after he shut his hand in the car door.Squeezing and grinding

(Definition of shut sth in sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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