Crossword clues for shutting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shut \Shut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shut; p. pr. & vb. n. Shutting.] [OE. shutten, schutten, shetten, schitten, AS. scyttan to shut or lock up (akin to D. schutten, G. sch["u]tzen to protect), properly, to fasten with a bolt or bar shot across, fr. AS. sce['o]tan to shoot. [root]159. See Shoot.]
To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.
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To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
Shall that be shut to man which to the beast Is open?
--Milton. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. ``Shut from every shore.''
--Dryden.-
To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book. To shut in.
To inclose; to confine. ``The Lord shut him in.''
--Cen. vii. 16.-
To cover or intercept the view of; as, one point shuts in another. To shut off.
To exclude.
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To prevent the passage of, as steam through a pipe, or water through a flume, by closing a cock, valve, or gate. To shut out, to preclude from entering; to deny admission to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof. To shut together, to unite; to close, especially to close by welding. To shut up.
To close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house.
To obstruct. ``Dangerous rocks shut up the passage.''
--Sir W. Raleigh.
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To inclose; to confine; to imprison; to fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner.
Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
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To end; to terminate; to conclude.
When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better.
--Collier. To unite, as two pieces of metal by welding.
To cause to become silent by authority, argument, or force.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is shut. vb. (present participle of shut English)
WordNet
v. move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut; "Close the door"; "shut the window" [syn: close] [ant: open]
become closed; "The windows closed with a loud bang" [syn: close] [ant: open]
prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country" [syn: exclude, keep out, shut out] [ant: admit]
[also: shutting]
See shut
Usage examples of "shutting".
Taking from his box a piece of the Sacred Wafer he laid it reverently on the earth, and then shutting down the lid began to screw it home, we aiding him as he worked.
Me, I stood on the ground, the Maule screening me from the tower, and relieved myself in the grass, before climbing back in and shutting down properly.
By that time, it was starting to grow dark outside, and Roberts and Hammell were asleep, unaware of the opening and shutting of the hatch, and the sound of a pair of feet traveling back and forth past them.
Casey, shutting his eyes, running his hands over his cheeks and jaw and mouth and clenching his fists and turning around in frustration.
He stood astride the hearthstones, warming his backside, leafing the manuscript pages, conscious of me drinking my sherry much too fast, shutting my eyes each time he let a page drop and flutter to the carpet.
Harry turned to look grimly at Sirius, who nodded and closed the door again, shutting the three of them in for the night.
I went on down the hall and into my room, shutting the door behind me.
She sat back and closed her coat, shutting away the amulet and its radiance.
Careful not to blow out the flame, Akeela floated toward the windows and closed the curtains one by one, shutting out every small moonbeam.
Thorin did as he asked, shutting the big door quietly before drifting over to the window.
Trager turned with a grunt and left the room with his Knight-Guardians, shutting the door behind him.
Not hiding his hurt feelings, Trager turned with a grunt and left the room with his Knight-Guardians, shutting the door behind him.
Lukien took a chair across from him while Minikin closed the door, obviously shutting out unwanted ears.
It must have weighed at least twenty or thirty tons, and was clearly moved upon some simple balance principle of counter-weights, probably the same as that by which the opening and shutting of an ordinary modern window is arranged.
After shutting my eyes involuntarily, I opened them, and saw that this luminous agent came from a half globe, unpolished, placed in the roof of the cabin.