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Which was sweet and also troubling, because it meant that I have never shut up about wanting to be Peter Pan.

“Sit down and shut up” was how all important family discussions began and ended where the rest of America grew up.

“RR—All of us tell everyone in our shops to shut up,” Weinberger recorded the president saying.

As Ransdell walks off, students can be heard muttering “go away,” and “shut up.”

However, telling them they could have shut up and put up is patently unfair.

Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.

The gnarled hands shut up into clenched fists, and the feeble voice trailed off in an agonized moan.

I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.

These mulls are placed in rows and shut up in separate cupboards, to keep in the dust.

Holy thoughts and affections unexpressed are sometimes like a fire shut up in the bones.

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shut up, such as: bottle up, choke, dry up, dummy up, fall silent, and gag.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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