she shut herself in

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• shut someone up — shut (someone/something) up to keep people or animals in a separate place. Every day she went up to a little room on the third floor where she shut herself up to work. At night we always kept the dog shut up in its cage …   New idioms dictionary

• shut something up — shut (someone/something) up to keep people or animals in a separate place. Every day she went up to a little room on the third floor where she shut herself up to work. At night we always kept the dog shut up in its cage …   New idioms dictionary

• shut up — shut (someone/something) up to keep people or animals in a separate place. Every day she went up to a little room on the third floor where she shut herself up to work. At night we always kept the dog shut up in its cage …   New idioms dictionary

• shut someone off — shut (someone/something) off to separate someone or something from others. A major interstate highway shuts the area off from the rest of the city. When her husband died she shut herself off from everyone. They just wanted to shut off all the… …   New idioms dictionary

• shut something off — shut (someone/something) off to separate someone or something from others. A major interstate highway shuts the area off from the rest of the city. When her husband died she shut herself off from everyone. They just wanted to shut off all the… …   New idioms dictionary

• shut off — shut (someone/something) off to separate someone or something from others. A major interstate highway shuts the area off from the rest of the city. When her husband died she shut herself off from everyone. They just wanted to shut off all the… …   New idioms dictionary

• shut — shut1 W2S1 [ʃʌt] v past tense and past participle shut present participle shutting [: Old English; Origin: scyttan] 1.) [I and T] to close something, or to become closed ▪ Shut the window, Ellen! ▪ I heard his bedroom door shut. ▪ She lay down on …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• shut — 1 /SVt/ verb past tense and past participle past tense and past participle shut present participle shutting 1 (I, T) to close something, or to become closed: The door shut with a bang. | She lay down on her bed and shut her eyes. | Laruelle put… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• shut off — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you shut off something such as an engine or an electrical item, you turn it off to stop it working. [V P n (not pron)] They pulled over and shut off the engine... [V n P] Will somebody for God s sake shut that alarm off. Syn:… …   English dictionary

• shut — shut1 [ ʃʌt ] (past tense and past participle shut) verb *** 1. ) transitive to close something, for example a door, window, or drawer: Please shut the door behind you. Shut the gate or the dog will get out. Don t worry about the curtains, I ll… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• shut one's face — phrasal or shut one s head slang : to shut one s mouth when, she asked herself angrily, would she learn to shut her face Margaret Long …   Useful english dictionary