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SHUT OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Prevent from entering; shut out
Example:
This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country
Synonyms:
exclude; keep out; shut; shut out
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "shut out" is one way to...):
keep; prevent (stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shut out"):
curse; excommunicate; unchurch (exclude from a church or a religious community)
lock out (prevent employees from working during a strike)
ostracise; ostracize (avoid speaking to or dealing with)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Context examples:
My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance.— 'I am ruined for ever in their opinion—' said I to myself—'I am shut out for ever from their society, they already think me an unprincipled fellow, this letter will only make them think me a blackguard one.' Such were my reasonings, as, in a sort of desperate carelessness, I copied my wife's words, and parted with the last relics of Marianne.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
In and out amongst these green hills of what they call here the Mittel Land ran the road, losing itself as it swept round the grassy curve, or was shut out by the straggling ends of pine woods, which here and there ran down the hillsides like tongues of flame.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
You seem shut out from every thing—in the most complete retirement.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
If it had not been for that, we should have carried on the garden wall, and made the plantation to shut out the churchyard, just as Dr.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The farmyard must be cleared away entirely, and planted up to shut out the blacksmith's shop.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I did not shut out of my consideration the time when I should leave her free, and still young and still beautiful, but with her judgement more matured—no, gentlemen—upon my truth!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She looked at him, but he was leaning back, sunk in a deeper gloom than ever, and with eyes closed, as if the view of cheerfulness oppressed him, and the lovely scenes of home must be shut out.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I was not made the less so by my sense of being daily more and more shut out and alienated from my mother.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
