shut up
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
The children shut up when their father approached
Related & opposite
- open up antonym
Sense 2 verb
place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
Types & categories
- confine hypernym
Related & opposite
- locking derivation
Sense 3 verb
cause to be quiet or not talk
Please silence the children in the church!
Types & categories
- suppress hypernym
- shush hyponym
- lull hyponym
- shout down hyponym
- gag hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | open up |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | locking |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | confine |
| 3 | also see | Related & opposite | whitewash |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | louden |
| 3 | causes | Related & opposite | hush |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | muffler |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | silencer |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | muteness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | silence |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | hush |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | silence |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | quiet |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | suppress |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | shush |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | lull |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | shout down |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | gag |