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shut up

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shut (someone) up
to stop talking or making noise, or to make someone do this. I wish you'd shut up and listen. He called me a fool, and that shut me up.
See also: shut

shut someone/something up
to keep people or animals in a separate place. Every day she went up to a little room on the third floor where she shut herself up to work. At night we always kept the dog shut up in its cage.
See also: shut
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