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6. evasion, evasive, trick, blind, guise, artifice, subterfuge; dodge, side-step, shift, feint, circumlocution, ruse; cloak, mask, sham, pretext, subtlety; prevarication, fib, white lie, distortion of the facts, circumvention; ambiguity, quirk, jesuitism, quibble, verbal retreat, backing down, reneging, SI. welshing, shun, v. eschew, avoid, steer clear of; have nothing
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to do with, refuse to touch with a 10-foot pole; abstain from, refrain from, forgo, forbear; shirk, evade, get out of, elude, keep one's distance, shrink from, shy away from, recoil, back away from, run away from, escape, flee from, keep out of the way of; snub, give [s.o.] the cold shoulder, Inf. cold-shoulder; spurn, rebuff, disdain, ignore, turn up one's nose at, disregard, turn away from, shut, v. 1. close, close up, close off, seal, seal up, seal off, occlude, obturate; lock, padlock, bolt, latch.
2. block, obstruct, occlude, barricade, blockade, stand in the way; stop, stay, arrest; clog, choke, congest, jam; impede, hinder, get in the way.
3. confine; imprison. See shut (defs. 7, 10a).
4. bar. See shut (def. 9a).
5. shut up shop, close shop, close down, close up, shutter, put up the shutters; close for the night, Inf. call it a day, lay off, Inf. knock off.
6. shut down Informal, discontinue, suspend, cease, halt, stop, drop, break off, leave off; strike, call a strike, go out on strike, walk out, stage a walk out.
7. shut in confine, enclose, keep in, quarantine, isolate; restrict, restrain, constrain, astrict, bind; circumscribe, hem in, pen in, fence, pale, picket, corral.
8. shut off a. turn off, close off, switch off, kill, cut. b. isolate, separate, part, divorce, estrange; alienate, segregate, sequester, cut off or out, send to Coventry.
9. shut out a. bar, exclude, omit, except, leave out, spurn, ostracize; reject, repudiate, debar, lock out, blackball; exile, banish, relegate, excommunicate, outlaw, b. hide, conceal, screen, veil, cover, Inf. cover up.
10. shut up a. cage, coop, coop up, box in, bottle up; jail, imprison, incarcerate, immure, intern, embar, clap up, SI. jug, SI. lag. b. Informal, be silent, keep one's mouth shut, hold one's tongue, keep still or quiet, seal one's lips, keep mum, SI. keep one's trap or yap shut, SI. dummy up, SI. clam up, SI. put the lid on, SI. button one's lip. c. Informal, silence, put to silence, hush, shush, quiet, still; gag, muzzle, stifle, SI. put the kibosh on.
-adj. 11. closed, closed-up, closed-tight, shut tight; locked, latched, bolted, fixed, fastened, fast, secure. shut-in, adj. 1. house-bound, confined, Inf. confined to quarters, incarcerated, captive of one's surroundings; enclosed, hemmed in, kept in; cooped up, immured, locked up, shut away; constricted, restricted, helpless, laid up, bedridden, disabled, crippled, paralyzed, paralytic.
2. Psychiatry, introverted, solitary, inner-directed, private, withdrawn, isolated, catatonic. -n. 3. invalid, sickly person, infirm person, convalescent, valetudinarian; chronically ill person, severely handicapped person, cripple, shutter, n. blind, shade, roman shade, Venetian blind, storm shutter, vertical blind, roll-up blind, shuttle, v. alternate, alternate between, pass back and forth, go back and forth between, shuttlecock, zigzag, trade off between, Inf. coast-hop, commute. shy1, adj. 1. bashful, diffident, retiring, reserved, backward, unconfident, Archaic, verecund, Scot. and
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