shut
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Is shut a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of shut?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses.Examples: "Please shut the door."; "The light was so bright I had to shut my eyes."; "They shut the road for the festival."intransitivetransitive
2. (transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses.Examples: "He has shut his mind to new ideas."intransitivetransitive
3. (transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses.Examples: "They generally shut the museum each day at 6 pm."; "The supermarket shuts at eight o'clock."; "Lots of shops in the town centre have shut because of the recession."Britishintransitivetransitive
4. (transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses.Examples: "We are shutting the phone lines at 9 pm."; "They shut the airport because of a bomb scare."intransitivetransitive
5. (transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses.Examples: "Phone lines will shut in ten minutes."intransitivetransitive
6. (transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses.Examples: "Shut the file when you have finished reading data."; "This app has a bug: when you try to sort a large spreadsheet, it shuts."ergativeintransitivetransitive
adj (English)
1. Closed, not open, in any of various senses.Examples: "Banks are shut on bank holidays."; "The museum is shut for the Christmas holidays."not-comparable
2. Closed, not open, in any of various senses.especiallynot-comparable
3. (heraldry) Synonym of close.Synonyms: closenot-comparable
4. (linguistics, phonetics, archaic) Synonym of close.Examples: "Whenever a syllable is formed with a long, that is an open vowel, they account the syllable long; and whenever formed with a short, that is a shut vowel, they reckon it short."Synonyms: closearchaicnot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (British, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.Synonyms: alleyBritishShropshiredialectal
Definition source: Wiktionary