To close, to stop from being open.
Please shut the door.
To close, to stop being open.
If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut.
To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
The pharmacy is shut on Sunday.
To confine in an enclosed area.
I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out.
To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
He's just shut his finger in the door.
To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
The act by which something is shut.
openings and shuttings of doors