English Explanatory Dictionary

shut up

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
  2. To terminate (a business).
  3. To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container.
  4. 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.
  5. To murder, kill.
adj
  1. Closed up or off, as in a building that no one is to enter.
intj
  1. Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk), arguing, crying, etc.
  2. I don't believe it!, no way!

Pronunciation

/ʃʌt ʌp/ [ʃʌt ʌp] [ʃʌɾʌp] En-au-shut up.ogg

Word forms

shut up shuts up shutting up shuddup shutup shurrup shaddup more shut up most shut up

Synonyms

close off seal up end terminate wind up lock up lock in seal in stash stash away shush hush silence quieten shut it be quiet shh get out never no no way stop it yeah right you don't say shut the front door I'll go to the foot of the stairs

Antonyms

open open up reopen establish set up start start up release

Derived words

put up or shut up shaddup shut it shut up and take my money shut up like a clam STFU
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