Button Up

Definition: Button Up

Button Up

Verb

1. Refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Button Up

Closure

Verb: close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct;

Nonpayment

Pay under protest; button up one's pockets, draw the purse strings; apply the sponge; pay over the left shoulder, get whitewashed; swindle; run up bills, fly kites.

Restraint

Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.

Expression using "button up": button up one's coat. Additional references.

Albanian

përfundoj (accomplish, bring closer, clinch, close, come out, complete, conclude, determine, do, end, finalize, finish, finish off, fulfil, fulfill, lapse, perfect, push through, put through, reason, result, terminate, touch up, transact, wear). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غلف بواسطة الأزرار, ‏زرر (button, do up, fasten). (various references)

Czech

zapnout (fasten, flick, flick on, hook up, switch on, turn on), zapínat, dokonèit (accomplish, bring to an end, complete, finalize, finish, finish off, get through, go through, perfect, push through). (various references)

French

boutonner (button). (various references)

German

zuknöpfen (button). (various references)

Hebrew 

לס�'ור בכפתורים. (various references)

Hungarian

begombol (to button up, to do up, to fasten). (various references)

Italian

allacciare (buckle, enlace, fasten, hook up, inlace, interlace, lace, strap in, tie, wire), abbottonare (button). (various references)

Manx

dooney (barricade, block, cadence, clench, closure, filling, imprisonment, lacing up, occlude, occlusion, secure, shut, shut down, stop up, swing). (various references)

Pig Latin

uttonbay upay

Romanian

încheia la hainã (button up one's coat). (various references)

Russian 

застегивать на пуговицы. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zakopčati (buckle, clasp, do up, enclasp). (various references)

Spanish

coserse la boca, abrochar (buckle, clasp, do up, fasten, hook up), abotonar (button). (various references)

Swedish

knäppa igen (fasten up). (various references)

Turkish

tamamlamak (bring to completion, catch up on, clear up, complement, complete, consummate, do, eke out, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, go through with, implement, integrate, perfect, round off, round out, serve out, supplement, take up, work off, work up), iliklemek (do up, fasten, loop), düğmelemek (button). (various references)

Ukrainian

потайливий (mealy mouthed, tight lipped). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: button, output, putout.

-3 letters: butut, punto, puton, putto.

-4 letters: bott, bout, bunt, butt, pout, punt, putt, tout, tutu, unto, upon.

-5 letters: bop, bot, bun, but, nob, not, nub, nut, opt, out, pot, pub, pun, put, ton, top, tot, tub, tun, tup, tut, upo.