shut up
[verb]
Synonyms:
- be quiet, fall silent, gag, hold one's tongue, hush, silence
- confine, cage, coop up, immure, imprison, incarcerate

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Related Idioms: button (or seal) one's lips, keep quiet
Related Words: hush, quiet (down), shush, soft-pedal

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shut up phrasal verb (see also shut)

1. shut up! spoken not polite used to tell someone to stop talking Synonym : be quiet!:
Oh, shut up! I don’t want to hear your excuses.
Just shut up and listen.
shut up! about
Shut up about your stupid dog, okay!

2. shut (somebody) up informal to stop talking or be quiet, or to make someone do this:
I can’t stand that woman. She never shuts up.
shut (somebody) up about
I wish you’d shut up about Chris.
I only said that to shut her up.

3. shut somebody up to keep someone in a place away from other people, and prevent them from leaving
shut somebody up in
I’ve had a terrible cold and been shut up in my room for a week.
Was there any need to keep us shut up here?

4. shut something ↔ up to close a shop, room etc so that people cannot get into it:
Bernadette cleaned the attic and then shut it up for another year.

5. shut up shop British English informal to close a business or stop working, at the end of the day or permanently

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shut something up
shut (someone/something) up
to keep people or animals in a separate place.
Every day she went up to a little room on the third floor where she shut herself up to work.

At night we always kept the dog shut up in its cage.

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shut up
shut (someone) up
to stop talking or making noise, or to make someone do this.
I wish you'd shut up and listen.

He called me a fool, and that shut me up.

shut (someone/something) up
to keep people or animals in a separate place.
Every day she went up to a little room on the third floor where she shut herself up to work.

At night we always kept the dog shut up in its cage.

shut (someone/something) up
to keep people or animals in a separate place.
Every day she went up to a little room on the third floor where she shut herself up to work.

At night we always kept the dog shut up in its cage.

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shut something up
• shut (something) up
to close the doors and windows of a building for a period of time
We decided to shut up our cottage for the winter as we will not use it anymore.

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shut up
1. • shut up
to stop talking
"Please shut up and let someone else speak."

2. • shut up (someone or something)
to confine someone or something
We always shut up our dog in the house when the postal worker comes.

3. • shut (something) up
to close the doors and windows of a building for a period of time
We decided to shut up our cottage for the winter as we will not use it anymore.

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shut up something
1. • shut (something) up
to close the doors and windows of a building for a period of time
We decided to shut up our cottage for the winter as we will not use it anymore.

2. • shut up (someone or something)
to confine someone or something
We always shut up our dog in the house when the postal worker comes.

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shut up
v.
1. informal To stop talking.
Little Ruthie told Father about his birthday surprise before Mother could shut her up.
■ Often used as a command; usually considered rude.
Shut up and let Joe say something.
If you'll shut up for a minute, I'll tell you our plan.
Synonym: BUTTON YOUR LIP, DRY UP³, KEEP ONE'S MOUTH SHUT.
2. To close the doors and windows of.
We got the house shut up only minutes before the storm hit.
3. To close and lock for a definite period of time.
The Smiths always spend Labor Day shutting up their summer home for the year.
We got to the store only to find that the owner had shut up shop for the weekend.
4. To confine.
That dog bites. It should be shut up.
John has been shut up with a cold all week.

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