shutter
/ˈʃʌtɚ/ verb C2- To close shutters covering. · Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!
- To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy. · It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.
- To cancel or terminate. · The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.· This company was shuttered in 2002.
- To rain heavily.
He/she/it shutters · Past shuttered · Past participle shuttered · -ing form shuttering
Verb forms
- Base form
- shutter
- He/she/it
- shutters
- Past
- shuttered
- Past participle
- shuttered
- -ing form
- shuttering
From the library
Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the shutter open, but without success.
On the table stood a dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar.
"I have said that it was heavily curtained, but now I found that the windows were shuttered as well.
I was in luck, for the curtain had not been quite closed, and there was a crack in the shutter so that I could see the inside of the room.
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