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shut one's eyes

shut one's eyes verb: to ignore or deliberately overlook.

Verb

shut one's eyes (third-person singular simple present shuts one's eyes, present participle shutting one's eyes, simple past and past participle shut one's eyes)

  1. (idiomatic) To ignore or deliberately overlook.
    • She was pretty, so he shut his eyes to all her faults.

Synonyms of shut one's eyes

Forms of shut one's eyes

third-person singular presentshuts one's eyes
present participleshutting one's eyes
past participleshut one's eyes
pastshut one's eyes

Questions about shut one's eyes

What does shut one's eyes mean?
Shut one's eyes means to ignore or deliberately overlook.
What part of speech is shut one's eyes?
Shut one's eyes is a verb.
What is the past tense of shut one's eyes?
The past tense of shut one's eyes is shut one's eyes.

Words near shut one's eyes in the dictionary

  1. shut in
  2. shut it
  3. shut my mouth
  4. shut of
  5. shut off
  6. shut one's eyes
  7. shut one's eyes and think of England
  8. shut one's eyes and thought of England
  9. shut one's face
  10. shut one's gob
  11. shut one's head

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