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{
"term": "shut",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "shut",
"heSheIt": "shuts"
},
"pastSimple": "shut",
"pastParticiple": "shut",
"ingForm": "shutting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to close something; to become closed",
"sensetop": "shut something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The window won't shut."
},
{
"text": "The doors open and shut automatically."
},
{
"text": "The door shuts and locks behind her."
},
{
"text": "Philip went into his room and **shut the door** behind him.",
"contextForm": "shut something"
},
{
"text": "I can't shut my suitcase—it's too full."
},
{
"text": "She **shut her eyes** and fell asleep immediately."
},
{
"text": "He shut his book and looked up."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "when a shop, restaurant, etc. shuts or when somebody shuts it, it stops being open for business and you cannot go into it",
"sensetop": "shut something",
"labels": "(British English)North American EnglishNorth American English",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The bank shuts at 4."
},
{
"text": "What time do the shops shut on Saturday?"
},
{
"text": "We left the hotel only to discover that the whole city shuts at 10.30."
},
{
"text": "The factory is going to shut next year."
},
{
"text": "We decided to shut the cafe early as there were no customers.",
"contextForm": "shut something"
},
{
"text": "They're going to shut two plants in Texas and fire 2 240 workers."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to make it unlikely that something will happen",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was careful not to close the door on the possibility of further talks."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to not talk about something to somebody because it is a secret or because it will upset or annoy them",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I've warned them to keep their mouths shut about this."
},
{
"text": "Now she's upset—why couldn't you keep your mouth shut?"
},
{
"text": "The athletes were warned to keep their mouths shut about politics."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to shut a door hard when somebody is trying to come in",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to refuse to talk to somebody or meet them, in a rude way",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to make it unlikely that something will happen",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was careful not to shut the door on the possibility of further talks."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to refuse to listen to something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She decided to shut her ears to all the rumours."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to pretend that you have not noticed something so that you do not have to deal with it",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You can't just close your eyes to his violence."
},
{
"text": "They seem intent on shutting their eyes to the problems of pollution."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a rude way of telling somebody to be quiet or stop talking",
"labels": "(slang)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to close a business permanently or to stop working for the day",
"labels": "(British English, informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "very easily, without thinking about it",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I've made this trip so often, I could do it with my eyes shut."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ʃʌt/",
"audio": "sh/shut/shut__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ʃʌts/",
"audio": "sh/shut/shuts__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈʃʌtɪŋ/",
"audio": "sh/shut/shutting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ʃʌt/",
"audio": "sh/shut/shut__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ʃʌts/",
"audio": "sh/shut/shuts__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈʃʌtɪŋ/",
"audio": "sh/shut/shutting__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English scyttan ‘put (a bolt) in position to hold fast’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch schutten ‘shut up, obstruct’, also to shoot."
}