shut yourself off
— phrasal verb with shut uk/ʃʌt/us/ʃʌt/verb [ I or T ] present participle shutting, past tense and past participle shut
to stop speaking to other people or stop being involved with them:
When her husband died she seemed to shut herself off from her friends and family.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Isolating and separating
- compartmentalize
- cone
- cone sth off
- cordon
- cordon sth off
- cut sb/sth off
- divide
- insulate
- insulation
- insulator
- intersect
- isolate
- isolation
- screen sth off
- seclude
- segregate
- separate
- separately
- wrenching
- zonal
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