shut out

Speech parts

1. shut out - Noun

2. shut out - Verb

Meaning

prevent from entering; shut out

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

shut exclude keep out coventry close prevent avoid block bar exile ban eliminate reject refuse restrict
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Antonyms

number back include allow cover aid
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Hypernyms

keep prevent

Hyponyms

curse excommunicate ostracize unchurch ostracise lock out

Examples

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. Rabindranath Tagore

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it. Ramakrishna

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have. Fred Frith

I can't see heaven but I credit hell - I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home. John Brunner

When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards to to sleep. The passwords fail. Margaret Atwood

If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether. Alexander Maclaren

Close letter words and terms

shut one's pie hole shut one's trap shut oneself away shut something off shut the box shut the door on