{
    "term": "shut",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "shut",
            "heSheIt": "shuts"
        },
        "pastSimple": "shut",
        "pastParticiple": "shut",
        "ingForm": "shutting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to close something; to become closed",
            "sensetop": "shut something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The window won't shut."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The doors open and shut automatically."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The door shuts and locks behind her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Philip went into his room and **shut the door** behind him.",
                    "contextForm": "shut something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't shut my suitcase—it's too full."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She **shut her eyes** and fell asleep immediately."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He shut his book and looked up."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "when a shop, restaurant, etc. shuts or when somebody shuts it, it stops being open for business and you cannot go into it",
            "sensetop": "shut something",
            "labels": "(British English)North American EnglishNorth American English",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The bank shuts at 4."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What time do the shops shut on Saturday?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We left the hotel only to discover that the whole city shuts at 10.30."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The factory is going to shut next year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We decided to shut the cafe early as there were no customers.",
                    "contextForm": "shut something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They're going to shut two plants in Texas and fire 2 240 workers."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make it unlikely that something will happen",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was careful not to close the door on the possibility of further talks."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to not talk about something to somebody because it is a secret or because it will upset or annoy them",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I've warned them to keep their mouths shut about this."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Now she's upset—why couldn't you keep your mouth shut?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The athletes were warned to keep their mouths shut about politics."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to shut a door hard when somebody is trying to come in",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to refuse to talk to somebody or meet them, in a rude way",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make it unlikely that something will happen",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was careful not to shut the door on the possibility of further talks."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to refuse to listen to something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She decided to shut her ears to all the rumours."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to pretend that you have not noticed something so that you do not have to deal with it",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You can't just close your eyes to his violence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They seem intent on shutting their eyes to the problems of pollution."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a rude way of telling somebody to be quiet or stop talking",
            "labels": "(slang)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to close a business permanently or to stop working for the day",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very easily, without thinking about it",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I've made this trip so often, I could do it with my eyes shut."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ʃʌt/",
                "audio": "sh/shut/shut__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ʃʌts/",
                "audio": "sh/shut/shuts__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈʃʌtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "sh/shut/shutting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ʃʌt/",
                "audio": "sh/shut/shut__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ʃʌts/",
                "audio": "sh/shut/shuts__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈʃʌtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "sh/shut/shutting__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English scyttan ‘put (a bolt) in position to hold fast’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch schutten ‘shut up, obstruct’, also to shoot."
}