shut out

synonyms for shut out

On this page you'll find 66 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shut out, such as: bar, beleaguer, blockade, block out, close, and conceal.

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A tarpaulin stretched from wheel to wheel of the wagon shut out the driving rain that fled in sheets before the whooping wind.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

Their dominion was an Utopia; and had it been possible to shut out every European and every wild Indian, it might have lasted.

My head sank to the table and my hands clasped my eyes to shut out the blackness.

Many thus unfortunately situated, from study and reading while so shut out from the world, become the most delightful companions.

It seemed to the poor child as if Mrs Mason's words were irrevocable, and, that being so, she was shut out from every house.

RUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL

Tom promptly stretched out on the ground, his hat over his face to shut out the sun.

He walked softly, with catlike tread, along by the wall to where the thick curtains shut out the inner apartment.

THE DOUBLE FOURE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM

"Oh my God," said Paula, and covered her head with her arms, trying to shut out sight and sound.

A torrent of rain now began to pour, falling so dense as almost to shut out the islands ahead.

But when night shut out the frigates she wore round and started once more on her former course.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985