shut up

Speech parts

1. shut up - Adjective

2. shut up - Verb

3. shut up - Interjection

4. shut up - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent

cause to be quiet or not talk

place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

closely confined

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

shut-up

Synonyms

hush lock silence lock up quieten still shush quiet close up clam up be quiet hush up button up dummy up keep mum

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Antonyms

mew yip gab state say rabbit

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Hypernyms

suppress conquer subdue confine stamp down

Hyponyms

shush muzzle gag lull calm down shout down

Examples

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. Paul Robeson

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. Saskya Pandita

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Never miss a good chance to shut up. American Proverb

Put up or shut up. American Proverb

If one has nothing to answer, it is best to shut up. Yiddish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

shut the hell up shut the stable door after the horse has bolted shut tightly shut up and take my money shut up shop shut with a bang