shut up
/ʃʌt ʌp/ verbeEn français : fermer, enfermer, renfermer, faire taire
- 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.
Dans la bibliothèque
“Yes, he likes to keep himself shut up in his little room.”
The Lion would have preferred a bed of dried leaves in the forest, and did not like being shut up in a room; but he had too much sense to let this worry him, so he sprang upon the bed and rolled himself up like a cat and purred himself asleep in a minute.
In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure.
A young Pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep.
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