adj
Meaning 1
Closed up or off, as in a building that no one is to enter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2010. Jem (And Sam). Ferdinand Mount. She did not come to Court, but she must have been taken to Montagu's house, for the Clerkenwell house was all shut up and was to be sold.
- 1865. The Wisconsin Farmer, and Northwestern Cultivator, Volume 17. Pg. 75. Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing.
- 1880. An Earnest Trifler. Mary Aplin Sprague. Pg. 166. Beaudeck is a very shut-up place.
Meaning relationships
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