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shut-up

• (s) closely confined pent,

Verbs

• (v) refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
  • The children shut up when their father approached
  belt up, be quiet, button up, clam up, keep mum, dummy up, close up,
• (v) place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
  • The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
  • She locked her jewels in the safe
  lock away, put away, shut away, lock in, lock up, lock,
• (v) cause to be quiet or not talk
  • Please silence the children in the church!
  silence, hush, hush up, still, quieten,

Synonyms

belt up be quiet button up clam up keep mum dummy up close up pent lock away put away shut away lock in lock up lock silence hush hush up still quieten

Antonyms

open up louden

See also

hush up sleek over whitewash gloss over

Words of close approximity