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outshut

outshut verb: to shut out.

Verb

outshut (third-person singular simple present outshuts, present participle outshutting, simple past and past participle outshut)

  1. (archaic) To shut out.
    • When I cry out,
      He outshuts my prayera. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Lamentations of Jeremy”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC

Forms of outshut

third-person singular presentoutshuts
present participleoutshutting
past participleoutshut
pastoutshut

Origin of outshut

From out- + shut.

Questions about outshut

What does outshut mean?
Outshut means to shut out.
What part of speech is outshut?
Outshut is a verb.
What is the past tense of outshut?
The past tense of outshut is outshut.

Words near outshut in the dictionary

  1. outshrieks
  2. outshrill
  3. outshrilled
  4. outshrilling
  5. outshrills
  6. outshut
  7. outshuts
  8. outshutting
  9. outside
  10. outside art
  11. outside back

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