Sekirov Dictionary

shut up

/ʃʌt ʌp/

verb 5
exclamation 2
adjective 1
forms 6

verb5

To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
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Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise.
- You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music – would you mind shutting up?
- He was blathering on about something, but I managed to shut him up.
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To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container.
- The wicked prince was shut up in the castle dungeon.
- The engineer had shut the locomotive up in the shed for twenty years.
To terminate (a business).
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(slang, old-fashioned) To murder, kill.
- I just heard that your wife was trying to shut you up for the insurance money.

exclamation2

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Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk), arguing, crying, etc.
- Shut up! We're sick of your whining!
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(informal) I don't believe it!, no way!
- I got accepted to Yale! —Shut up, really? That's awesome!

adjective1

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Closed up or off, as in a building that no one is to enter.
- She did not come to Court, but she must have been taken to Montagu's house, for the Clerkenwell house was all shut up and was to be sold. — 2010

forms

shutting up · shutting-up · shuts up · shuts-up · more shut up · most shut up

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