shut up

• Aufforderung an jemanden, aufzuhören zu reden oder keinen Lärm mehr zu machen; wird oft barsch oder unhöflich verwendet.

A phrasal verb used to tell someone to stop talking, or to cease making noise.

unzählbar · intransitiv · Phrasal, untrennbar

1. Stop talkinginformal

   To stop speaking or making noise.

   Still sein

   • Please shut up, I'm trying to concentrate.
   • He told the noisy kids to shut up.
   • She shut up when the teacher entered the room.

   Synonymebe quietdummy uphushkeep quietpipe downquiet down

   Antonymespeaktalk

2. Confine or imprisoninformal

   To keep someone in a closed space, preventing them from leaving.

   Einsperren

   • They shut him up in a small room for hours.
   • The prisoners were shut up in their cells.
   • She shut herself up in her bedroom to study.

   Synonymecageconfinecoop updetainencloseimprisonincarcerateinternlock up

   Antonymefreerelease

Grundverbshut