If you shut your eyes, you lower your eyelids so that you cannot see anything. Lucy shut her eyes so she wouldn't see it happen. [VERB noun] Shut is also an adjective. His eyes wer
Definition of shut verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to close (something) by bringing together or folding its parts: Shut your book. Shut the window! enclose: to shut a bird into a cage. exclude: They shut him from their circle. to c
1. To stop the flow or passage of; cut off: shut off the hot water by closing a valve. 2. To close off; isolate: loners who shut themselves off from the community.
adjective used especially of mouth or eyes “his eyes were shut against the sunlight” synonyms: closed blinking, winking closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly