Definition of shut

"shut" in the verb sense

1. close, shut

move so that an opening or passage is obstructed make shut

"Close the door"

"shut the window"

2. close, shut

become closed

"The windows closed with a loud bang"

3. exclude, keep out, shut out, shut

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"

"shut" in the adjective sense

1. shut, unopen, closed

not open

"the door slammed shut"

2. closed, shut

used especially of mouth or eyes

"he sat quietly with closed eyes"

"his eyes were shut against the sunlight"

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Quotations for shut

Shut up and talk. [ Yogi Berra ]

At shut of evening flowers. [ Milton ]

Yet who shall shut out fate? [ Edwin Arnold ]

Into a mouth shut flies fly not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Deep in my shut and silent heart. [ Byron ]

A book that is shut is but a block. [ Proverb ]

No age is shut against great genius. [ Seneca ]

Keep thy mouth shut, but thy eyes open.

You shut your budget before it is full. [ Proverb ]

Where one door is shut, another is open. [ Proverb ]

Every door may be shut but death's door. [ Proverb ]

Thoughts shut up want air.
And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. [ Edward Young ]

My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. [ Coleridge ]

Men shut their doors against a setting sun. [ William Shakespeare ]

No doors are shut against honest grey-hairs. [ Proverb ]

He that hath not craft, let him shut up shop. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The year doth nothing else but open and shut. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

God's plans like lilies pure and white unfold;
We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart;
Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. [ Mary R. Smith ]

The soul shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;
But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward
To the world's open view. [ John Dryden ]

When the daughter is stolen, shut pepper-gate. [ Proverb ]

The poor too often turn away unheard,
From hearts that shut against them with a sound
That will be heard in heaven. [ Longfellow ]

When the steed is stole you shut the stable door. [ Proverb ]

When the wares are gone shut up the shop windows. [ Proverb ]

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last.
Shut thee from Heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. [ Confucius ]

It is a sin against hospitality to open your doors, and shut up your countenance. [ Proverb ]

Be more careful to keep the doors of your heart shut than the doors of your house. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Kick a barking dog and he will bark the more. Never notice him, and he will shut up.

The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut out in the awful storm! [ W. H. Gibson ]

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb. [ Colton ]

Memory is like a purse: if it be overfull, that it cannot be shut, all will drop out of it. [ Fuller ]

Read and take your nourishment in at your eyes; shut up your mouth and chew the cud of understanding. [ Congreve ]

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul. [ Dr. Watts ]

All men are fools: to escape seeing one, one would be compelled to shut himself in his room, and break his mirror. [ De Sade ]

Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal rightlined circle must conclude and shut up all. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Were wisdom given me with this reservation, that I should keep it shut up within myself and not impart it, I would spurn it. [ Seneca ]

Though thou art disappointed in a hope, never let hope fail thee; though one door is shut, there are thousands still open for thee. [ Rückert ]

Sects of men are apt to be shut up in sectarian ideas of their own, and to be less open to new general ideas than the main body of men. [ Matthew Arnold ]

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the keyhole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV. Sc.1 ]

The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. [ Seneca ]

Thou tell'st me there is murder in my eye: 'tis pretty, sure, and very probable that eyes - that are the frailest and softest things, who shut their coward gates on atomies - should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! [ William Shakespeare ]

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. [ Beecher ]

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust. [ Chapin ]

A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. [ Richter ]

When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together; and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]

shut in Scrabble®

The word shut is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters shut:

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shut in Words With Friends™

The word shut is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters shut:

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Words within the letters of shut

2 letter words in shut (2 words)

3 letter words in shut (2 words)

4 letter words in shut (Anagrams) (3 words)

Word Growth involving shut

Shorter words in shut

hut

Longer words containing shut

shutdown shutdowns

shuteye shuteyes

shutin shutins

shutoff shutoffs

shutout shutouts

shuts

shutter shutterbug shutterbugs

shutter shuttered unshuttered

shutter shuttering

shutter shutterless

shutter shutters

shutting

shuttle nanoshuttle nanoshuttles

shuttle shuttlecock shuttlecocked

shuttle shuttlecock shuttlecocking

shuttle shuttlecock shuttlecocks

shuttle shuttled

shuttle shuttleless

shuttle shuttlelike

shuttle shuttler shuttlers

shuttle shuttles nanoshuttles

shuttling

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