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Definition: TO SHUT IN |
TO SHUT IN1. (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. |
Crosswords: TO SHUT IN |
| English words defined with "TO SHUT IN": Embay ♦ Imbound, Interclose ♦ Sperre. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TO SHUT IN": Gotham. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO SHUT IN": Tynd. (references) |
Expression using "TO SHUT IN": To shut in the land. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | includere, includo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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. | |
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