shut up

• Verbo usado para decirle a alguien que deje de hablar o de hacer ruido; también puede significar hacer callar a alguien o cesar uno mismo de hablar.

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

incontable · intransitivo · phrasal, inseparable

1. Stop talkinginformal

   To stop speaking or making noise.

   callarse

   • 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.

   Sinónimosbe quietdummy uphushkeep quietpipe downquiet down

   Antónimosspeaktalk

2. Confine or imprisoninformal

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

   Encerrar

   • 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.

   Sinónimoscageconfinecoop updetainencloseimprisonincarcerateinternlock up

   Antónimosfreerelease

Verbo baseshut