shut yourself away
— phrasal verb with shut /ʃʌt/ verb [I or T] (present tense shutting, past tense and past participle shut)Definition
› to go into a place that you are unwilling to leave and where you do not want to be interrupted by other people: Andy shuts himself away in his studio for hours on end when he's recording a song.AloneSeparateness and isolation in space
(Definition of shut yourself away from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- apart adjective
- be in a minority of one idiom
- castaway noun
- deserted adjective (LEFT BEHIND)
- go stag idiom
- herself pronoun
- himself pronoun (MALE)
- keep (themselves) to themselves idiom
- like a shag on a rock idiom
- lone wolf noun
- lonely adjective
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