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SHUT IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Surround completely
Example:
They closed in the porch with a fence
Synonyms:
close in; enclose; inclose; shut in
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "shut in" is one way to...):
border; environ; ring; skirt; surround (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shut in"):
hedge; hedge in (enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges)
fort; fortify (enclose by or as if by a fortification)
corral (enclose in a corral)
casket (enclose in a casket)
cordon off; rope in; rope off (divide by means of a rope)
fence; fence in (enclose with a fence)
encapsulate (enclose in a capsule or other small container)
dike; dyke (enclose with a dike)
bank (enclose with a bank)
glass; glass in (enclose with glass)
border; frame; frame in (enclose in or as if in a frame)
bury; eat up; immerse; swallow; swallow up (enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing)
case; encase; incase (enclose in, or as if in, a case)
enshrine; shrine (enclose in a shrine)
bower; embower (enclose in a bower)
wall in; wall up (enclose with a wall)
insert; tuck (fit snugly into)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples:
But the dwarf was enraged at his behaviour, and laid a fairy spell of ill-luck upon him; so that as he rode on the mountain pass became narrower and narrower, and at last the way was so straitened that he could not go to step forward: and when he thought to have turned his horse round and go back the way he came, he heard a loud laugh ringing round him, and found that the path was closed behind him, so that he was shut in all round.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I hid my eyes, and leant my head against the stone frame of my door; but soon a slight noise near the wicket which shut in my tiny garden from the meadow beyond it made me look up.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"It may be a candle in a house," I then conjectured; "but if so, I can never reach it. It is much too far away: and were it within a yard of me, what would it avail? I should but knock at the door to have it shut in my face."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings,—all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
