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SHUT AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shut away mean? 

SHUT AWAY (verb)
  The verb SHUT AWAY has 1 sense:

1. place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escapeplay

  Familiarity information: SHUT AWAY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHUT AWAY (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lock; lock away; lock in; lock up; put away; shut away; shut up

Context example:

She locked her jewels in the safe

Hypernyms (to "shut away" is one way to...):

confine (prevent from leaving or from being removed)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP


 Context examples 


In it she kept her papers, and a few books, safely shut away from Scrabble, who, being likewise of a literary turn, was fond of making a circulating library of such books as were left in his way by eating the leaves.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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