shut

shut is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Shut. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. past tense & past participle. of Shut
2. transitive verb. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.
3. transitive verb. To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
4. transitive verb. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
5. transitive verb. To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.
6. intransitive verb. To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.
7. adjective. Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
8. adjective. Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.
9. adjective. Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g.
10. adjective. Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are.
11. noun. The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.
12. noun. A door or cover; a shutter.
13. noun. The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
14. verb. move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut

    "Close the door"

    "shut the window"

    Synonyms: close

15. verb. become closed

    "The windows closed with a loud bang"

    Synonyms: close

16. verb. prevent from entering; shut out

    "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"

    "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country"

    Synonyms: exclude

17. adjective. not open

    "the door slammed shut"

    Synonyms: closed, unopen

18. adjective. used especially of mouth or eyes

    "he sat quietly with closed eyes"

    "his eyes were shut against the sunlight"

    Synonyms: closed

Synonyms

close, exclude, closed, unopen

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shut:

hust, huts, thus, tush

Common word forms

shuts, shuted, shutes, shuting, shutter, shutness, shutting

Words from these letters

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