shutverb [ I or T ]
uk /ʃʌt/ us /ʃʌt/ present participle shutting, past tense and past participle shutshut verb [ I or T ] (CLOSE)
shut verb [ I or T ] (STOP OPERATING)
A2 to (cause to) stop operating or being in service, either temporarily or permanently:
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- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- cure
- knock
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- lid
- lift
- raise
- suppression
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
B1 closed:
figurative The government ought to have opened the door to Japanese investment instead of slamming it shut.
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