shut up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌt ˈʌp/
ipa: [ʃʌʔ ˈʌp]
ipa: [ʃʌt̚ ˈʌp]
ipa: /ʃʌt ˈʌp/
ipa: [ʃʌˈɾʌp]
Forms: form: shuts up
form: shutting up
form: shut up
form: shut up
form: shuddup
form: shutup
form: shurrup
form: shaddup
Senses: synonyms: close off
seal up
antonyms: open
open up
reopen
glosses: To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
synonyms: end
terminate
wind up
antonyms: establish
set up
start
start up
glosses: To terminate (a business).
examples: text: The wicked prince was shut up in the castle dungeon.
text: The engineer had shut the locomotive up in the shed for twenty years.
text: "You know the doctor's ways, sir," replied Poole, "and how he shuts himself up. Well, he's shut up again in the cabinet; and I don't like it, sir—I wish I may die if I like it. Mr. Utterson, sir, I'm afraid."
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
text: "Oh no, snow!" whined Falcon Housebird to her mistress, Queeny Diamond-Heart. I'll be shut up at your house! At your mercy! With no way to get away!"
ref: 1983 February 5, Andrea Loewenstein, “Snowbound”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28, page 10:
synonyms: word: lock up
word: lock in
word: seal in
word: stash
english: of objects
translation: of objects
word: stash away
english: of objects
translation: of objects
antonyms: release
glosses: To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container.
examples: text: You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music – would you mind shutting up?
text: He was blathering on about something, but I managed to shut him up.
text: She told us earlier that none of what you just said was true, so shut up!
text: This is a quote from the letter: "Went to the Senate yesterday and you should have seen the carrying on they did. I could hardly get them to shut up so I could speak, and they did the same thing after I had finished. Some said the Senate never did carry on so over any president or anybody else."
ref: 1965, Harry S. Truman, 0:20 from the start, in MP2002-442 Former President Truman Discusses Problems Faced During the Potsdam Conference, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
text: Shut up and sleep with me / Come on, why don't you sleep with me?
ref: 1995, “Shut Up (And Sleep With Me)”, in Golden Boy, performed by Sin With Sebastian:
text: He really doesn't know when to shut up and leave it to those at the heart of the negotiations, who fully understand and appreciate all the nuances, to try and hammer out a deal.
ref: 2022 August 10, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Striking a fair balance”, in RAIL, number 963, page 3:
synonyms: word: shush
word: hush
word: silence
word: quieten
glosses: 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.
examples: text: I just heard that your wife was trying to shut you up for the insurance money.
text: Shepard: Why were they threatening you? Who do they work for?
Dr. Chloe Michel: They work for Fist. They wanted to shut me up, keep me from telling Garrus about the quarian.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
glosses: To murder, kill.
Derived terms: put up or shut up
shaddup
shut it
shut up and take my money
shut up like a clam