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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country" [syn: exclude, keep out, shut out, shut] [ant: admit, include, let in]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 14th century 1. exclude 2. to prevent (an opponent) from scoring in a game or contest 3. to forestall the bidding of (bridge opponents) by making a high or preemptive bid

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you shut something or someone out, you prevent them from getting into a place, for example by closing the doors. 'I shut him out of the bedroom,' says Maureen... I was set to shut out anyone else who came knocking. PHRASAL VERB: V n P of n, V P n (not pron) 2. If you shut out a thought or a feeling, you prevent yourself from thinking or feeling it. I shut out the memory which was too painful to dwell on... The figures represent such overwhelming human misery that the mind wants to shut it out. = block out PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 3. If you shut someone out of something, you prevent them from having anything to do with it. She is very reclusive, to the point of shutting me out of her life... She had effectively shut him out by refusing to listen. PHRASAL VERB: V n P of n, V n P

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

Exclude.

Moby Thesaurus

ban, banned, bar, bar out, barred, barricade, blank, blanked, block, block out, block up, blockade, bolt, bulldoze, chock, choke, choke off, clobber, close, close off, close tight, close up, constrict, count out, cream, crowd, cut off, debar, debarred, defeat utterly, deny, deported, disallow, dog, ejected, embargo, enjoin, exclude, exclude from, excluded, exiled, expelled, forbid, freeze out, ignore, inhibit, interdict, jam, keep out, leave out, left out, liquidated, lock, lock out, not in it, not included, obstruct, occlude, omit, ostracize, outlaw, overbear, overwhelm, pack, pass over, paste, preclude, precluded, prevent, prohibit, prohibited, proscribe, purged, refuse, reject, relegate, repress, repudiate, rule out, say no to, schmear, send to Coventry, shellac, shroud, shut off, shut tight, skunk, smear, snow under, squeeze, squeeze shut, steamroller, stifle, stop up, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, suppress, taboo, tabooed, unscoring, whelm, whitewash, whitewashed, whomp, whop