shut yourself off
— phrasal verb with shut /ʃʌt/ verb [I or T] (present tense shutting, past tense and past participle shut)Definition
› to stop speaking to other people or stop being involved with them: When her husband died she seemed to shut herself off from her friends and family.Isolating and separating
(Definition of shut yourself off from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- compartmentalize verb
- cone sth off phrasal verb
- cordon sth off phrasal verb
- cut sb/sth off phrasal verb
- demarcate verb
- insulate verb (COVER)
- insulation noun
- insulator noun
- intersect verb
- isolate verb
- isolation noun
- partition verb (DIVIDE COUNTRY)
- partition verb (DIVIDE ROOM)
- rope sth/somewhere off phrasal verb
- screen sth off phrasal verb
- segregate verb
- sequester verb (KEEP SEPARATE)
- uncouple verb
- wrench verb
- zonal adjective
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