Phrasal Verbs
to stop talking (often used as an order as a rude way of telling someone to stop talking) Just shut up and listen! Will you tell Mike to shut up? When they finally shut up, I started again.
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to make someone stop talking synonym silence She kicked Anne under the table to shut her up.
to close a room, house, etc. The summer house was shut up for another year and we went back to the city.
to keep someone or something in a place and prevent them from going anywhere