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shut up

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shut up

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(informal) to stop talking (often used as an order as a rude way of telling somebody to stop talking) Just shut up and listen! Will you tell Mike to shut up? When they'd finally shut up, I started again.

shut somebody up

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to make somebody stop talking synonym silence She kicked Anne under the table to shut her up.

shut somethingup

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to close a room, house, etc. The summer house was shut up for another year and we went back to the city.

shut somebody/something up (in something)

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to keep somebody/something in a place and prevent them from going anywhere
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