Shut

//ʃʌt//

Synonyms for "shut" (135 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (27)

close closed exclude ban bang bar barricade batten batten down blank blind blind-alley block out bolt bolted bottle up box in button button up cease

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cecal choke choke off

Verb(2 words)

shut out build up

Noun(2 words)

alley alleyway

Strong matches (41)

choked choked off clap close down close off close up conceal confine constrict constricted contain contract contracted coop up cover cut cut off cut out dead dead end

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dead-end debar disallow discontinue douse eliminate fasten fastened fence in fold fold up gag halt hem hide immure

Adjective(1 words)

Verb(2 words)

close exclude

Adjective(1 words)

closed

Noun(1 words)

gangway

Related words (67)

imprison incarcerate intern isolate jail keep away keep in keep out keep quiet key kill latch leave off lock lock out lock up locked up mask mute occlude

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Verb(1 words)

keep out

Adverb(1 words)

Noun(2 words)

twitchel wynd

Adjective(1 words)

unopen

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

More general

6 entries

change state displace keep move prevent turn

Antonyms

1 entries

open

Synonyms

3 entries

close closed exclude

derived

47 entries

beshut buss-up-shut cold shut cut-and-shut every shut eye isn't asleep keep one's mouth shut open and shut open and shut case open-and-shut outshut shut away shut down shut in shut it shut my mouth shut of

Showing 16 of 47 words.

etymologically related_to

3 entries

chute shoot shute

has context

3 entries

british dialect shropshire

related to

15 entries

alleyway business close closed cover door line metal open passageway place short cut shutter stop weld

similar

10 entries

blinking close closed compressed squinched squinting tight winking

Translations

141 translations across 87 languages.

Afrikaans

2 entries

sluit verb ((transitive) to close)
toemaak verb ((transitive) to close)

Albanian

1 entries

mbyll verb ((transitive) to close)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

κλείω verb ((transitive) to close)

Arabic

3 entries

أَغْلَقَ verb ((transitive) to close)
اِنْغَلَقَ verb ((intransitive) to close, to stop being open)
قفل verb ((transitive) to close)

Armenian

1 entries

փակել verb ((transitive) to close)

Assamese

3 entries

জপোৱা verb ((transitive) to close)
বন্ধ কৰা verb ((transitive) to close)
মুদা verb ((transitive) to close)

Asturian

2 entries

cerrar verb ((transitive) to close)
zarrar verb ((transitive) to close)

Azerbaijani

3 entries

bağlamaq verb ((transitive) to close)
qapamaq verb ((transitive) to close)
örtmək verb ((transitive) to close)

Basque

1 entries

itxi verb ((transitive) to close)

Belarusian

2 entries

зачыня́ць verb ((transitive) to close)
зачыні́ць verb ((transitive) to close)

Bengali

1 entries

বন্ধ করা verb ((transitive) to close)

Bulgarian

2 entries

затва́рям verb ((transitive) to close)
затварям се verb ((intransitive) to close, to stop being open)

Burmese

1 entries

ပိတ် verb ((transitive) to close)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

داخستن verb ((transitive) to close)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᎠᏍᏚᎲᏍᎦ verb ((transitive) to close)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

關 /关 verb ((transitive) to close)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

閉 /闭 verb ((transitive) to close)
關 /关 verb ((transitive) to close)
關閉 /关闭 verb ((transitive) to close)

Czech

1 entries

zavřít verb ((transitive) to close)

Dalmatian

1 entries

seruar verb ((transitive) to close)

Danish

1 entries

lukke verb ((transitive) to close)

Dutch

2 entries

dichtklappen verb ((transitive) to close)
sluiten verb ((transitive) to close)

Esperanto

1 entries

fermi verb ((transitive) to close)

Estonian

1 entries

sulgema verb ((transitive) to close)

Finnish

1 entries

sulkea verb ((transitive) to close)

French

1 entries

fermer verb ((transitive) to close)

Friulian

1 entries

sierâ verb ((transitive) to close)

Galician

1 entries

pechar verb ((transitive) to close)

Georgian

1 entries

დახურვა verb ((transitive) to close)

German

2 entries

schließen verb ((transitive) to close)
zumachen verb ((transitive) to close)

Greek

1 entries

κλείνω verb ((transitive) to close)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

fèmen verb ((transitive) to close)

Hebrew

1 entries

סָגַר verb ((transitive) to close)

Hindi

1 entries

बंद करना verb ((transitive) to close)

Hungarian

1 entries

becsuk verb ((transitive) to close)

Icelandic

1 entries

loka verb ((transitive) to close)

Indonesian

3 entries

membungkam verb ((transitive) to close)
menutup verb ((transitive) to close)
menyumpal verb ((transitive) to close)

Irish

2 entries

dún verb ((transitive) to close)
iaigh verb ((transitive) to close)

Italian

2 entries

chiudere verb ((transitive) to close)
serrare verb ((transitive) to close)

Japanese

3 entries

閉じる verb ((transitive) to close)
閉まる verb ((intransitive) to close, to stop being open)
閉める verb ((transitive) to close)

Kazakh

1 entries

жабу verb ((transitive) to close)

Khmer

1 entries

បិទ verb ((transitive) to close)

Korean

1 entries

닫다 verb ((transitive) to close)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

бекитүү verb ((transitive) to close)
жабуу verb ((transitive) to close)

Lao

1 entries

ອັດ verb ((transitive) to close)

Latin

1 entries

claudō verb ((transitive) to close)

Latvian

1 entries

aizvērt verb ((transitive) to close)

Lithuanian

1 entries

uždaryti verb ((transitive) to close)

Lombard

1 entries

sarà verb ((transitive) to close)

Low German

4 entries

dichtmaken verb ((transitive) to close)
dichtmoken verb ((transitive) to close)
sluten verb ((transitive) to close)
slüten verb ((transitive) to close)

Macedonian

1 entries

за́твори verb ((transitive) to close)

Malay

3 entries

membungkam verb ((transitive) to close)
mengatup verb ((transitive) to close)
menutup verb ((transitive) to close)

Maltese

1 entries

għalaq verb ((transitive) to close)

Middle English

2 entries

schitten verb ((transitive) to close)
schitten verb ((intransitive) to close, to stop being open)

Mongolian

1 entries

хаах verb ((transitive) to close)

Māori

4 entries

kamu verb ((transitive) to close)
kapiti verb ((transitive) to close)
kati verb ((transitive) to close)
kiwa verb ((transitive) to close)

Nepali

1 entries

बन्द गर्नु verb ((transitive) to close)

Northern Kurdish

3 entries

daxistin verb ((transitive) to close)
daêxistin verb ((transitive) to close)
girtin verb ((transitive) to close)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

stenge verb ((transitive) to close)

Old English

1 entries

scyttan verb ((transitive) to close)

Ottoman Turkish

3 entries

اورتمك verb ((transitive) to close)
قاپامق verb ((transitive) to close)
یوممق verb ((transitive) to close)

Persian

1 entries

بستن verb ((transitive) to close)

Polish

2 entries

zamknąć verb ((transitive) to close)
zamykać verb ((transitive) to close)

Portuguese

1 entries

fechar verb ((transitive) to close)

Romansch

2 entries

sarar verb ((transitive) to close)
serrar verb ((transitive) to close)

Russian

2 entries

закры́ть verb ((transitive) to close)
закрыва́ть verb ((transitive) to close)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

dùin verb ((transitive) to close)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

zatvoriti verb ((transitive) to close)
затворити verb ((transitive) to close)

Sicilian

1 entries

chiùdiri verb ((transitive) to close)

Sinhalese

1 entries

වහනවා verb ((transitive) to close)

Slovak

1 entries

zavrieť verb ((transitive) to close)

Slovene

1 entries

zapreti verb ((transitive) to close)

Spanish

1 entries

cerrar verb ((transitive) to close)

Swedish

1 entries

stänga verb ((transitive) to close)

Tajik

2 entries

бастан verb ((transitive) to close)
пӯшидан verb ((transitive) to close)

Telugu

1 entries

మూయు verb ((transitive) to close)

Thai

3 entries

งับ verb ((transitive) to close)
ปิด verb ((transitive) to close)
หุบ verb ((transitive) to close)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

pasim verb ((transitive) to close)

Turkish

1 entries

kapatmak verb ((transitive) to close)

Turkmen

2 entries

örtmek verb ((transitive) to close)
ýapmak verb ((transitive) to close)

Ugaritic

1 entries

𐎒𐎂𐎗 verb ((transitive) to close)

Ukrainian

4 entries

закри́ти verb ((transitive) to close)
закрива́ти verb ((transitive) to close)
зачини́ти verb ((transitive) to close)
зачиня́ти verb ((transitive) to close)

Urdu

1 entries

بند کرنا verb ((transitive) to close)

Uzbek

2 entries

bekitmoq verb ((transitive) to close)
yopmoq verb ((transitive) to close)

Venetan

2 entries

sarar verb ((transitive) to close)
serar verb ((transitive) to close)

Vietnamese

1 entries

đóng verb ((transitive) to close)

Welsh

1 entries

cau verb ((transitive) to close)

Yiddish

2 entries

פֿאַרמאַכן verb ((transitive) to close)
שליסן verb ((transitive) to close)

Sample sentences

40 total sentences available.

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The burglar shut the child in the closet.

Source: tatoeba (19206)

I feel cold. Would you shut the window, please?

Source: tatoeba (21176)

I think the only problem I have now is being shut in at home.

Source: tatoeba (24160)

It looks like rain. We had better shut the windows.

Source: tatoeba (26787)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.