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shut
/ʃʌt/ verb [I, T] (present participle shutting, past tense and past participle shut)Definition
CLOSE › to close something, or to become closed: Shut the door. He lay back and shut his eyes. The lid shut with a bang.
STOP SERVING UK (UK/US close) › When a shop, restaurant, etc shuts, it stops serving customers and does not allow people to enter: The museum shuts at 4 o'clock on a Friday. Several schools were shut because of the bad weather.
(Definition of shut verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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