transitive. To shut, fasten, or lock (a door, gate, room, etc.). Also figurative.

transitive. To close, shut (a door, gate, or window; a house, one's mouth, eyes, etc.). Also with to adv. (cf. to shut to at shut, v. phrasal…

transitive. To enclose; to shut up.

transitive. To shut off or out; hence, to preclude, prohibit.

In general use: To close, fasten, secure, lock, etc. Also with up.

transitive. To shut, fasten, or lock (a door, gate, room, etc.).

transitive. To shut (firmly).

In general sense: To close, shut, etc.

transitive. To stop up (an opening or channel) so that it ceases to be open or to allow of passage. Where the opening is provided with a gate, door…

To fasten up, shut up. Cf. 10a 10b. Obsolete.

transitive. To secure (a door, gate, window, etc.) with a latch, bolt, or other fastening.

transitive and intransitive. To close up, in various senses.

To close (an entrance, aperture, etc.); to pull (a door, window, etc.) to; †to stop up, make impassable (a road). Also occasionally to shut…

transitive. In later use chiefly reflexive. To shut up or confine (a thing or person); to close off, to obstruct access to.

transitive to close up.

transitive. To lock, to make secure.

transitive. To fill up (an opening or gap); to stop up (a hole or passage); to shut or fasten up (a door, a house). Now chiefly regional.

transitive. To close with or as with a hatch. Cf. hatch, n.1 1a.

transitive. To lock or fasten securely.