shut up

• Фразовый глагол, используемый, чтобы сказать кому-то перестать говорить или прекратить шуметь.

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

uncountable · intransitive · phrasal, inseparable

1. Stop talkinginformal

   To stop speaking or making noise.

   Замолчать

   • 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.

   Synonymsbe quietdummy uphushkeep quietpipe downquiet down

   Antonymsspeaktalk

2. Confine or imprisoninformal

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

   Запереть

   • 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.

   Synonymscageconfinecoop updetainencloseimprisonincarcerateinternlock up

   Antonymsfreerelease

Base verbshut