Synonyms of the word

shut

• v. (transitive) To close, to stop from being open.
• v. (intransitive) To close, to stop being open.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, chiefly Britain) To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be…
• v. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
• adj. closed.
• n. The act or time of shutting; close.
• n. A door or cover; a shutter.
• n. The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
• n. (Britain, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between…

blinking

• adj. That or who blinks or blink.
• adj. (Britain, euphemistic, slang) bloody.
• v. present participle of blink.
• n. The act of something that blinks.

close

• v. (physical) To remove a gap.
• v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
• v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
• v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
• n. An end or conclusion.
• n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
• n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
• adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
• adj. Narrow; confined.
• adj. At a little distance; near.
• adj. Intimate; well-loved.
• adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
• adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
• adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
• adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
• adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
• adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
• adj. Short.
• adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
• adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
• adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
• adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
• adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
• adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
• adj. Marked, evident.
• n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
• n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
• n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
• n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
• n. A cathedral close.
• n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

closed

• adj. Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open.
• adj. (of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade.
• adj. Not public.
• adj. (topology, of a set) Having an open complement.
• adj. (mathematics, of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Lacking a free variable.
• adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are the same.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of close.

compressed

• adj. Pressed tightly together.
• adj. Flattened, especially when along its entire length.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of compress.

exclude

• v. To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
• v. To expel; to put out.
• v. (law, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
• v. (medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

keep

• v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
• v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
• v. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
• v. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
• v. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
• v. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
• n. (obsolete) Care, notice.
• n. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to, the…
• n. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
• n. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
• n. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
• n. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
• n. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.

prevent

• v. (transitive) To stop; to keep from.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

squinched

• v. simple past tense and past participle of squinch.

squinting

• v. present participle of squint.
• n. The act of one who squints.

tight

• adj. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
• adj. (of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass…
• adj. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
• adj. (slang) Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
• adj. (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
• adj. (slang, British (regional)) Mean; unfair; unkind.
• adj. (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
• adj. (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
• adj. (poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.
• adj. (poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
• adv. Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
• adv. Soundly.
• v. (obsolete) To tighten.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

unopen

• adj. (rare) Not open; closed.

winking

• v. present participle of wink.
• n. The act of one who winks.