shutting
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Definitions ofshutting
- To close, to stop from being open.
Example: "Please shut the door."
- To close, to stop being open.
Example: "If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut."
- To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
Example: "The pharmacy is shut on Sunday."
- To confine in an enclosed area.
Example: "I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out."
- To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
Example: "He's just shut his finger in the door."
- To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
- The act by which something is shut.
Example: "openings and shuttings of doors"
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