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shutter

/ˈʃʌtɚ/ verbo C2
  1. To close shutters covering. (transitive) · Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!
  2. To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy. (figuratively, transitive) · It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.
  3. To cancel or terminate. (transitive) · The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.· This company was shuttered in 2002.
  4. To rain heavily.

He/she/it shutters · Pasado shuttered · Participio pasado shuttered · Forma en -ing shuttering

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De la biblioteca

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.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 56 · B2
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.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 67 · B2
"I have said that it was heavily curtained, but now I found that the windows were shuttered as well.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 13 · B2
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.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 13 · B2

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