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synonyms for shut up

  • bottle up
  • choke
  • dry up
  • dummy up
  • fall silent
  • gag
  • hold tongue
  • hush
  • keep trap shut
  • muzzle
  • pipe down
  • quiet
  • quieten
  • quit chattering
  • shush
  • silence
  • soft pedal
  • still
  • stop talking
On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shut up, such as: bottle up, choke, dry up, dummy up, fall silent, and gag.

antonyms for shut up

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  • speak
  • talk
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How to use shut up in a sentence

Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNE
The gnarled hands shut up into clenched fists, and the feeble voice trailed off in an agonized moan.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
These mulls are placed in rows and shut up in separate cupboards, to keep in the dust.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.
Holy thoughts and affections unexpressed are sometimes like a fire shut up in the bones.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAM
Why, he sent his man down here, t'other day, to warn me to keep my hens shut up and off his property.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMOND
The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open them: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
But I wish you would both go out upon the balcony, shut the doors, and leave me for a minute shut up alone in here.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS
He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
And he said: Go, Daniel, because the words are shut up, and sealed until the appointed time.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
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WORDS RELATED TO SHUT UP

  • be silent
  • button up
  • clam up
  • keep one's trap shut
  • not let out a peep
  • say nothing
  • shut up
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.