shut
To close, in various senses.
Verb 4 meanings
To close, in various senses.
“Please shut the door.”
To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
“He's just gone and shut his finger in the door!”
To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.
“I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out.”
To isolate, to close off from the world.
Adjective 2 meanings
Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
“A shut door barred our way into the house.”
Synonym of close.
Noun 3 meanings
The act or time of shutting; close.
“the shut of a door”
A door or cover; a shutter.
The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
Etymology
From Middle English schitten, schetten, from Old English sċyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt”), from Proto-West Germanic *skuttjan, from Proto-Germanic *skutjaną, *skuttijaną (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skuttą, *skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to drive, fall upon, rush”).
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SHUT at a glance
SHUT has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (S 1 + H 4 + U 1 + T 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,692 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with shut
All rhymes- CHUT9
- BAHUT10
- PHUT9
- BHUT9
- COCKSHUT19
- UNSHUT9
One letter away
- SHOT7
- SHUN7
- SHAT7
- SHUL7
- CHUT9
- SOUT4
- SHET7
- SCUT6
- SAUT4
- PHUT9
- BHUT9
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