shut down

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [shuht doun]
- /ʃʌt daʊn/
- /ʃʌt daʊn/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [shuht doun]
- /ʃʌt daʊn/

Definitions of shut down words

verb with object shut down to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct. 1
verb with object shut down to close the doors of (often followed by up): to shut up a shop for the night. 1
verb with object shut down to close (something) by bringing together or folding its parts: Shut your book. Shut the window! 1
verb with object shut down to confine; enclose: to shut a bird into a cage. 1
verb with object shut down to bar; exclude: They shut him from their circle. 1
verb with object shut down to cause (a factory, school, etc.) to end or suspend operations, services, or business activity: He shut his store, sold his house, and moved away. We're shutting the office for two weeks in June. 1

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Origin of shut down

First appearance:

before 1000

One of the 6% oldest English words

before 1000; Middle English s(c)hutten, s(c)hetten, s(c)hitten Old English scyttan “to bolt (a door)”; akin to shoot1

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Parts of speech for Shut down

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Shut down

shut down popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for shut down

verb shut down

anesthetize — to cause anesthesia in; give an anesthetic to
anesthetized — to render physically insensible, as by an anesthetic.
arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
balmed — simple past tense and past participle of balm.

adj shut down

closed — A closed group of people does not welcome new people or ideas from outside.

All 99 Synonyms of shut down