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Shut in

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To confine. transitive

    "We need to shut the dog in so he doesn’t escape."

  2. 2
    surround completely wordnet
  3. 3
    To completely surround or enclose. transitive
  4. 4
    To settle down, or fall; to arrive; (said of evening, etc.) dated, intransitive

    "Then there are the golden hues of twilight shadowed in the lake, and the light veil of mist drawing across the foliage of the valley as the evening shuts in upon it."

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