shut out
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shut out
noun shut outs
- Nonstandard spelling of shutout.shutout
verb shuts out · shutting out · shut out
- To prevent from entering; to block or exclude. His wife shut him out of his own house.
- To hide from sight. The high wall shut out the countryside beyond.
- To refuse to be open and vulnerable toward. No! Why? Why do you shut me out? Why do you shut THE WORLD out?
- 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