shut up

• Expressão usada para mandar alguém parar de falar ou fazer silêncio, geralmente de forma rude ou imperativa.

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

incontável · intransitivo · phrasal, inseparável

1. Stop talkinginformal

   To stop speaking or making noise.

   Cale a boca

   • 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.

   Sinônimosbe quietdummy uphushkeep quietpipe downquiet down

   Antônimosspeaktalk

2. Confine or imprisoninformal

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

   Prender

   • 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.

   Sinônimoscageconfinecoop updetainencloseimprisonincarcerateinternlock up

   Antônimosfreerelease

Verbo baseshut