shuttered

Verb

shutter (third-person singular simple present shutters, present participle shuttering, simple past and past participle shuttered)

1. (transitive) To close shutters covering.
   • Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!
2. (figuratively, transitive) To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.
   • It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.
3. (transitive) To cancel or terminate.
   • The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.
4. To rain heavily.
   • Mollie Wilson was a teenager living with her parents in Donaghmore in Tyrone, Northern Ireland [and said this]: 3rd September [1939] When Chamberlain made his declaration of war, there was violent thunder and lightning and rain shuttered down. I had always trusted rain too.2011 November 30, Carol Harris, Mike Brown, Blitz Diary: Life Under Fire in the Second World War, The History Press, →ISBN, page 1

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