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TO SHUT IN

Definition: TO SHUT IN

TO SHUT IN

1. (a) To inclose; to confine. ``The Lord shut him in.'' --Cen. vii. 16. (b) To cover or intercept the view of; as, one point shuts in another.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Crosswords: TO SHUT IN

English words defined with "TO SHUT IN": EmbayImbound, IntercloseSperre. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO SHUT IN": Gotham. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO SHUT IN": Tynd. (references)

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Expression: TO SHUT IN

Expression using "TO SHUT IN": To shut in the land. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO SHUT IN

Language Translations for "TO SHUT IN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

körülzár (encompass, to beleaguer, to encompass, to hem in, to interlock, to round), elzár (close, cut off, dam, debar, lock up, mew, obstruct, obturate, occlude, seclude, shut in, shut off, shut up, switch off, to block, to bung, to bung up, to caulk, to choke up, to clog, to confine, to debar, to immure, to list, to mew, to obliterate, to obturate, to occlude, to seclude, to shut away, to shut off, to shut out, to strangulate, to turn off, turn off), bezár (close up, coop, encompass, immure, incarcerate, lock, lock on, lock up, shut, shut in, shut up, to bolt in, to box in, to bung, to bung up, to cloister, to close, to close up, to enclose, to encompass, to fold up, to immure, to incarcerate, to latch, to mew, to pin, to shut down). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

め込む (to lock in), 取り める (to confine, to surround), 封じ込める (to confine, to contain). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しめ"む (to lock in), ふうじ"める (to confine, to contain), とり"める (to confine, to surround). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay utshay inay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TO SHUT IN

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

includere, includo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: TO SHUT IN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-i-n-o-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: outhits.

-2 letters: outhit, outsin, outsit, stotin, tonish.

-3 letters: hints, hoist, hunts, shott, shout, shunt, snout, south, stint, stout, stunt, suint, thins, thous, tints, toits, tonus, touts, units.

-4 letters: hins, hint, hisn, hist, hits, hons, host, hots, huns, hunt, huts, into, ions, nits, nosh, nous, nuts, onus, oust, outs, shin, shot, shun, shut, sinh, sith.

 Words containing the letters "h-i-n-o-s-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: outthinks.

 

+2 letters: muttonfish.

 

+3 letters: outhustling, outshooting, outshouting, pothuntings, unworthiest.

 

+4 letters: glutathiones, habituations, housesitting, muttonfishes, outthrusting, shortcutting, silhouetting.

 

+5 letters: luteotrophins, naturopathies, outstretching, sansculottish, toothbrushing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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