shut out
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "His wife shut him out of his own house."
- "This triple-glazing shuts out the noise of the traffic."
- "Open carriages tend to be draughty and inadequately heated. The passenger in them has no escape from the annoyance of squalling babies, boisterous drunks, and riotous teddy-boys, who may be at the far end of the coach but whose din cannot be shut out."
- "Fear, as a pre-teen, of being shut-out ^([sic]) from the activities in which other children were participating."
- "For generations, women were shut out of financial systems, denied access to bank accounts, credit, and the education to understand them."
- "The high wall shut out the countryside beyond."