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shuts out

shuts out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shut out.

Meaning of shut out

Verb

shut out (third-person singular simple present shuts out, present participle shutting out, simple past and past participle shut out)

  1. (transitive) To prevent from entering; to block or exclude.
    • His wife shut him out of his own house.
  2. (transitive) To hide from sight.
    • The high wall shut out the countryside beyond.
  3. (transitive) To refuse to be open and vulnerable toward.
    • No! Why? Why do you shut me out? Why do you shut THE WORLD out?2013, Jennifer Lee, Frozen, spoken by Elsa (Idina Menzel)
  4. To prevent from scoring; to perform a shutout.

Questions about shuts out

What is shuts out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shuts out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shut out.

Words near shuts out in the dictionary

  1. shuts one's face
  2. shuts one's gob
  3. shuts one's head
  4. shuts one's mouth
  5. shuts one's trap
  6. shuts out
  7. shuts the stable door after the horse has bolted
  8. shuts up
  9. shuts up like a clam
  10. shuts up shop
  11. shuts-up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shuts out (page history and authors); shut out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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