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SHUTTING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of closing something

Synonyms:

closing; shutting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("shutting" is a kind of...):

motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)

Derivation:

shut (move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb shut

Credits

 Context examples: 

Catherine, at any rate, heard enough to feel that in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?" she muttered, shutting her drawer with a jerk.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Then, pray consult,” said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, on the contrary, their conversation was very grave, and filled out with many little bows, and opening and shutting of snuff-boxes, and flickings of laced handkerchiefs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The best expedient I could think of, was to creep into my house, which I accordingly did; and shutting the gate after me, I went as far as the length of my chain would suffer, and discharged my body of that uneasy load.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Without shutting herself up from her family, or leaving the house in determined solitude to avoid them, or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward, and of Edward's behaviour, in every possible variety which the different state of her spirits at different times could produce,—with tenderness, pity, approbation, censure, and doubt.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

One by one he took out a succession of beautiful rifles, opening and shutting them with a snap and a clang, and then patting them as he put them back into the rack as tenderly as a mother would fondle her children.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As I came back, I saw Uriah Heep shutting up the office; and feeling friendly towards everybody, went in and spoke to him, and at parting, gave him my hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Here it is, and I’m shutting down to-morrow morning.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had regained the gallery, and was just shutting the back-door behind me, when an accelerated hum warned me that the ladies were about to issue from their chambers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)