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shut out

noun shut outs

  1. nonstandard Nonstandard spelling of shutout.shutout

verb shuts out · shutting out · shut out

  1. transitive To prevent from entering; to block or exclude. His wife shut him out of his own house.
  2. transitive To hide from sight. The high wall shut out the countryside beyond.
  3. transitive To refuse to be open and vulnerable toward. No! Why? Why do you shut me out? Why do you shut THE WORLD out?
  4. To prevent from scoring; to perform a shutout.

Similar: bar, debar, drive away, exclude, fend off, forbar, foreclose, repel, shut, shut out, turn away, ward off

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