shut away

shut away
verb
place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
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The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend

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She locked her jewels in the safe

• Syn: ↑lock in, ↑lock away, ↑lock, ↑put away, ↑shut up, ↑lock up
• Derivationally related forms: ↑lockup (for: ↑lock up)
• Hypernyms: ↑confine
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

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Somebody ——s somebody PP

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Somebody ——s something PP

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transitive verb
: to remove or isolate from others

in order to escape from the prison where society shut her away — H.M.Parshley

I shut myself away for two hours — R.G.G.Price

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shut away
1. To keep hidden or repressed
2. To isolate
3. To confine
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Main Entry: ↑shut

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ˌshut a ˈway [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they shut away he/she/it shuts away present participle shutting away past tense shut away past participle shut away] phrasal verb
to put someone in a place where they are kept apart from other people

Don’t shut yourself away all day in your room.

Thesaurus: to put a person or animal in a place they cannot leavesynonym
Main entry: shut

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shut away [phrasal verb]
shut (someone or something) away : to put (someone or something) in a place that is separate from others

She was shut away in prison for three years.

He shut himself away (in his room) to study.

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Main Entry: ↑shut

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