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Shut

shut

1. Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.

2. Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.

3. (Science: medicine) cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the english short vowels, <acr/, e, i, o, <urcr/, always are.


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