1. shutting - Noun
2. shutting - Verb
Derived from shut
of Shut
Source: Webster's dictionaryQuiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Khaled Hosseini
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors of all the drawing-rooms in her face. Stendhal
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running. Bill Watterson
For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going. David Foster Wallace
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes. Franz Kafka
My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know. She thought she had never loved him so much as at this moment, when she heard the convent door close, hard and final, and felt the wall shutting her in. Marion Zimmer Bradley