shut in

• Фразовый глагол, означающий запереть или заточить кого-то или что-то внутри помещения, или не дать им выйти.

A phrasal verb meaning to confine or trap someone or something inside a place, or to prevent them from leaving.

uncountable · irregular verb · transitive · phrasal, separable

1. Confine or trapformal

   To prevent someone or something from leaving a place; to enclose.

   Запереть или изолировать

   • The heavy snow shut them in for three days.
   • She felt shut in by the small apartment.
   • The dog was shut in the yard by the fence.

   Synonymsbox incageconfinecoop upencloseimmureimprisonlock intrap

   Antonymsfreeliberateopenreleaseunlock

2. Isolate sociallyinformal

   To cause someone to become withdrawn or isolated from social contact.

   Изолировать

   • His illness shut him in from his friends.
   • The shy child shut himself in his room all day.
   • After the accident, she shut herself in and refused visitors.

   Synonymscloisterconfinecut offinsulateisolatequarantinesecludesegregatesequestershut away

Base verbshut