To close, to stop from being open.
Example: "Please shut the door."
To close, to stop being open.
Example: "If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut."
To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
Example: "The pharmacy is shut on sunday."
To confine in an enclosed area.
Example: "I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out."
To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
Example: "He's just shut his finger in the door."
To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.