To shut up Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. . (a) To close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house . (b) To obstruct . "Dangerous rocks shut up the passage." Sir W. Raleigh. (c) To inclose; to confine; to imprison; to fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner.
    Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Gal. iii. 23.
    (d) To end; to terminate; to conclude .
    When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better. Collier.
    (e) To unite, as two pieces of metal by welding. (f) To cause to become silent by authority, argument, or force .
Definitions
  1. to cease speaking. Colloq.

Webster 1913