Synonyms for Shut
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1. shut

   Synonyms:
   close, contract, confine, preclude, bar, fasten

   Antonyms:
   open, expand, unclose, unbar, unfasten

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1. shut, unopen, closedadjective

   not open

   "the door slammed shut"

   Synonyms:
   unsympathetic, unopen, closed in(p), shut, closed(a), closed

   Antonyms:
   unfastened, ajar(p), wide-open, open

2. closed, shutverb

   used especially of mouth or eyes

   "he sat quietly with closed eyes"; "his eyes were shut against the sunlight"

   Synonyms:
   closed, shut, unopen, unsympathetic, closed(a), closed in(p)

   Antonyms:
   open, unfastened, ajar(p), wide-open

3. close, shutverb

   move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut

   "Close the door"; "shut the window"

   Synonyms:
   exclude, shut down, come together, close, fold, close down, conclude, keep out, fill up, close up, shut, shut out

   Antonyms:
   open, unfastened, ajar(p), wide-open

4. close, shutverb

   become closed

   "The windows closed with a loud bang"

   Synonyms:
   exclude, shut down, come together, close, fold, close down, conclude, keep out, fill up, close up, shut, shut out

   Antonyms:
   wide-open, open, ajar(p), unfastened

5. exclude, keep out, shut out, shutverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   turf out, boot out, leave out, omit, chuck out, debar, close, exclude, bar, keep out, leave off, eject, turn out, except, shut out, shut, take out

   Antonyms:
   unfastened, ajar(p), wide-open, open

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1. shutverb

   Synonyms:
   close, close up

2. shutverb

   Synonyms:
   enclose, confine, imprison, shut up, coop up, lock up, close the door upon

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1. shutverb

   Synonyms:
   close, debar, exclude, preclude, (shut up) confine, imprison, coop up, incarcerate, immure

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1. List of paraphrases for "shut":

   closed, close, farm, firm, closure, shh, ferme, closes, locked, closing

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1. Sahil Tak:

   What we are dealing with here is uncharted, what if facilities have to shut down if workers become sick?

2. Sitting Bull:

   I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.

3. Jim Vogel:

   The Hong Kong demonstrations and their ability to shut down the airport and the surprise in Argentina took the wind out of the sails of the stock market, we're back to worrying that things are still unsettled and so there's no need to push stocks higher, and without that optimism, without that 'things-are-getting-better' impulse behind stocks, Treasury yields are moving to the lower middle of the range.

4. J. B. Yeats:

   Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

5. Mustafa Kuko:

   If he had ever expressed his ideas, we could have tried to stop it, we would have shut it down.