shut up

verb

1. tr to prevent all access to
2. tr to confine or imprison
3. informal.
   to cease to talk or make a noise or cause to cease to talk or make a noise: often used in commands
4. intr (of horses in a race) to cease through exhaustion from maintaining a racing pace

Example Sentences

Which was sweet and also troubling, because it meant that I have never shut up about wanting to be Peter Pan.

From The Daily Beast

“Sit down and shut up” was how all important family discussions began and ended where the rest of America grew up.

From The Daily Beast

“RR—All of us tell everyone in our shops to shut up,” Weinberger recorded the president saying.

From The Daily Beast

As Ransdell walks off, students can be heard muttering “go away,” and “shut up.”

From The Daily Beast

However, telling them they could have shut up and put up is patently unfair.

From The Daily Beast

Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.

From Project Gutenberg

The gnarled hands shut up into clenched fists, and the feeble voice trailed off in an agonized moan.

From Project Gutenberg

I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.

From Project Gutenberg

These mulls are placed in rows and shut up in separate cupboards, to keep in the dust.

From Project Gutenberg

Holy thoughts and affections unexpressed are sometimes like a fire shut up in the bones.

From Project Gutenberg