LekhoriLekhoriTo close, in various senses.
Please shut the door.
To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
He's just gone and shut his finger in the door!
To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.
I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out.
Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
A shut door barred our way into the house.
Synonym of close.
The act or time of shutting; close.
the shut of a door
A door or cover; a shutter.
A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
From Middle English shutten, shetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skutjaną, *skuttijaną (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *...
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Archaic form of shot (“discharged, cleared, rid of something”).
When he asked her, she said, she thanked God he was dead, (the woman was glad to get shut of him) and said he died of an ague and fever.