Dictionary

shut in en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To confine.
   • Well might the Sun in Darkneſs hide, / And ſhut his Glories in, / When God the mighty Maker dy’d / For Man the Creature’s Sin. 1707, Isaac Watts, “Godly Sorrow ariſing from the Sufferings of Chriſt”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 86:
   • We need to shut the dog in so he doesn’t escape.
2. (transitive) To completely surround or enclose.
3. (dated, intransitive) To settle down, or fall; to arrive; (said of evening, etc.)
   • Then there are the golden hues of twilight shadowed in the lake, and the light veil of mist drawing across the foliage of the valley as the evening shuts in upon it. 1846, George Barrell Cheever, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc, page 6:
4. (transitive) To stop pumping oil from a site, ending production.

Forms

Deriveds

shut-in

Relateds

shut away · send away

Translations (8)

eo enfermi (confine) · pl więzić (confine) · grc περικλείω (confine) · grc κατακλείω (confine) · pl zamknąć (confine) · pl zamykać (confine) · la inclūdō (confine) · pl uwięzić (confine)