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shutting out

shutting out is the present participle and gerund 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 shutting out

What is shutting out the present participle and gerund of?
Shutting out is the present participle and gerund of shut out.

Words near shutting out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shutting 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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