Overview of verb shut_up

The verb shut up has 3 senses

• close up, clam up, dummy up, shut up, belt up, button up, be quiet, keep mum -- (refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached")


• lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up -- (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")


• hush, quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up -- (cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!")

Overview of adj shut_up

The adj shut up has 1 sense

• pent, shut up -- (closely confined)