shut out
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
prevent from entering; shut out
The trees were shutting out all sunlight
Types & categories
- prevent hypernym
- excommunicate hyponym
- lock out hyponym
- ostracize hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | let in |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | shutter |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | exclusion |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | prevent |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | excommunicate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | lock out |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ostracize |