Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shut the door

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.60 in modern English

Syllables: shut the -door
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To refuse to consider, remember, accept, or engage in.

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shut, the, door.

Example Sentences

"Contentment with the past, or the cold conventionality of custom, may no longer shut the door on science."
"But I believe I am justified in shutting the door on this vista of argument."
"[H]e pulled off his peasant clothes covered with the dust and dirt of that immediate life, washed himself, put on his "noble court dress," closed the door on the world of toiling and getting, private loving, private hating and personal regrets, sat down with a sigh of contentment to those wider dreams."
"Let's shut the door on conflict."
"But while Gore has not entirely shut the door on another run for President, he insists that he is "not planning" to be a candidate again."
"Yet Tressel didn't slam the door on the possibility that Wells might still play in Saturday's game against Ohio University."

Inflected Forms

shuts the door (present, singular) shutting the door (participle, present)

Synonyms

close the door slam the door

Questions

What does shut the door mean?: To refuse to consider, remember, accept, or engage in.

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