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SHUTTERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shuttered mean? 

SHUTTERED (adjective)
  The adjective SHUTTERED has 1 sense:

1. provided with shutters or shutters as specified; often used in combinationplay

  Familiarity information: SHUTTERED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHUTTERED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Provided with shutters or shutters as specified; often used in combination

Context example:

green-shuttered cottages

Similar:

closed (with shutters closed)

Antonym:

unshuttered (not provided with shutters or having the shuttered open)


 Context examples 


There were four of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the fourth was shuttered up.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Rather than stay shuttered inside, as Pisces is sometimes prone to do, you’ll want to be out and about, seeing friends and attending events.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

An apparatus for taking photographs, generally consisting of a lightproof enclosure having an aperture with a shuttered lens through which the image of an object is focused and recorded on a photosensitive film or plate.

(Camera Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from beneath it that the room was not in darkness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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