shut up
/ʃʌt ʌp/ verb- To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
- To terminate (a business).
- To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container. · The wicked prince was shut up in the castle dungeon.· The engineer had shut the locomotive up in the shed for twenty years.
- Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise. · You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music – would you mind shutting up?· He was blathering on about something, but I managed to shut him up.
- To murder, kill. · I just heard that your wife was trying to shut you up for the insurance money.
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Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope!
I made up my mind I’d stay shut up here forever rather than do that.
I did pretty well until I put the pie in, and then an irresistible temptation came to me to imagine I was an enchanted princess shut up in a lonely tower with a handsome knight riding to my rescue on a coal-black steed.
As for Cordelia, she went insane with remorse and was shut up in a lunatic asylum.
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