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verb1. refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent (Freq. 6)-
The children shut up when their father approached
• Syn:• Verb Frames:-Somebody ——s
2. cause to be quiet or not talk (Freq. 1)-Please silence the children in the church!
• Derivationally related forms: ↑still (for: ↑still), ↑silence (for: ↑silence), ↑silencer (for: ↑silence), ↑hush (for: ↑hush)• Cause: ↑hush• Verb Frames:-Somebody ——s somebody
-Something ——s somebody
3. place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape (Freq. 1)-The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
-She locked her jewels in the safe
• Hypernyms: ↑confine• Verb Frames:-Somebody ——s something
-Somebody ——s somebody
-Somebody ——s somebody PP
-Somebody ——s something PP
adjectiveclosely confined (Freq. 1)• Syn: ↑pent• Similar to: ↑confined* * *
shut up (or shut someone up)[often in imperative] informal stop (or cause someone to stop) talkingjust shut up and listen | I lifted a finger slightly to shut him up
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shut up [phrasal verb]1 informalHe won't shut up about how he won the game.
Can someone get that dog to shut up?
— often used as a rude way to tell someone to stop talkingShut up for a second and listen to what I have to say.
2 shut up (something) or shut (something) up : to close and lock all the doors of (a house, store, etc.)They shut up the house and left town.
◇ In British English, to shut up shop is to go out of business forever or stop performing all services or activities for a period of time.Rather than shutting up shop [=closing up shop] entirely, the company laid off half of its workers.
The store has already shut up shop for the day.
3 shut (someone or something) up : to put (someone or something) in a place that is away from other people• • •Main Entry: ↑shut* * *
ˌshut ˈup derived•
Just shut up and listen!
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Will you tell Mike to shut up?
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When they'd finally shut up, I started again.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.