shut up

• Verbe ou locution utilisée pour ordonner à quelqu'un de cesser de parler ou de faire du bruit.

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

indénombrable · intransitif · phrasal, inséparable

1. Stop talkinginformal

   To stop speaking or making noise.

   se taire

   • 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.

   Synonymesbe quietdummy uphushkeep quietpipe downquiet down

   Antonymesspeaktalk

2. Confine or imprisoninformal

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

   Enfermer, emprisonner

   • 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.

   Synonymescageconfinecoop updetainencloseimprisonincarcerateinternlock up

   Antonymesfreerelease

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