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Shutting

/ˈʃʌtɪŋ/

To close, to stop from being open.

📖 Definitions of "Shutting"

verb
  1. 1

    To close, to stop from being open.

    "Please shut the door."

  2. 2

    To close, to stop being open.

    "If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut."

  3. 3

    To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.

    "The pharmacy is shut on Sunday."

  4. 4

    To confine in an enclosed area.

    "I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out."

noun
  1. 1

    The act by which something is shut.

    "openings and shuttings of doors"

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