VERB
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refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
The children shut up when their father approached -
cause to be quiet or not talk
Please silence the children in the church! -
place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
She locked her jewels in the safe
ADJECTIVE
- closely confined
How To Use shut up In A Sentence
- They put out a plan that adds up, leaves no ox ungored and should shut up anyone who says the deficit can be contained by cutting waste, fraud, abuse and foreign aid. Two Tests of a Gridlock Mentality
- When you shut up your eyes , I like a duck in a thunderstorm . I can but stop and wait beside you whisht .
- Someone who can, in all deliberateness, actually give forth that depraved statement would do well, truly, to reconsider or shut up.
- Myra wanted to tell it to SHUT UP as it cuckooed six times. MORE FROM GINNY BATES: PAINTERLAND
- ‘Shut up,’ he hissed glancing into the kitchen where mom was on the phone.
- We are not coming here to shut up shop. The Sun
- We won't shut up shop and try to nick something. The Sun
- Now when I was shut up in my room with the mumps was the time to begin The French Revolution. In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
- The shop has been shut up temporarily.
- Princess found herself shut up in the palkee, and being carried she knew not where, she thought how terrible it would be for her sister to return home and find her gone, and determined, if possible, to leave some sign to show her which way she had been taken. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know