SHUT IN


Meaning of SHUT IN in English

1.

If you shut someone or something in a room, you close the door so that they cannot leave it.

The door enables us to shut the birds in the shelter in bad weather.

PHRASAL VERB : V n P n

2.

If you shut yourself in a room, you stay in there and make sure nobody else can get in.

After one particular bad result, he shut himself in the shower room for an hour...

PHRASAL VERB : V pron-refl P n

3.

see also shut-in

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