If you shut your eyes, you lower your eyelids so that you cannot see anything. Lucy shut her eyes so she wouldn't see it happen. [VERB noun] Shut is also an adjective. His eyes were shut and he seemed to have fallen asleep.
Definition of shut verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
shut (third-person singular simple present shuts, present participle shutting, simple past shut, past participle shut or (obsolete, dialectal) shutten) (transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses. (transitive, intransitive) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
1. To stop the flow or passage of; cut off: shut off the hot water by closing a valve. 2. To close off; isolate: loners who shut themselves off from the community.
to close (something) by bringing together or folding its parts: Shut your book. Shut the window! enclose: to shut a bird into a cage. exclude: They shut him from their circle. to cause (a business, factory, store, etc.) to end or suspend operations: He shut his store, sold his house, and moved away. We're shutting the office for two weeks in June.
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1. To stop the flow or passage of; cut off: shut off the hot water by closing a valve. 2. To close off; isolate: loners who shut themselves off from the community.