Shutting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHUTTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHUT, to close, also SHET
• move (something) into position so as to block an opening; close
• move or be able to be moved so as to block an opening
• block an opening into (something) by moving something into position
• keep in a place by closing something such as a door
• fold or bring together the sides of (something) so as to close it
• prevent access to or along
• make or become unavailable for business or service, either permanently or until due to be open again
• stop talking; be quiet
NOUN:
• the act of closing something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• present participle of shut

Words related to SHUTTING

shut7 shuts8

Words that contain SHUTTING

unshutting14

How to use SHUTTING in a sentence

• Her lashes were half closed, at once retaining the vision of the panorama at her feet as a thing of atmospheric enjoyment and shutting it out from the intimacy of her thoughts.
• They make of their cod a kind of tomb, and shutting up themselves in their own work, they are new-born under another figure, in order to perpetuate themselves.
• Almost at once she was asleep again, to be, however, thoroughly awakened a few moments later by the opening and the shutting of a door.
• For five stories above him the two buildings towered, shutting out the starlight.
• He was shutting off the power gradually, but still rushing up with frightening speed, when Bostwick raised his gun and fired.
• Before starting, however, he built the brick wall round his estate, shutting it out forever from human eyes.
• If he blamed his uncle for shutting up this superb creature within herself, he failed not to admire the result of the imprisonment.
• Should he go up stairs, or on to the conservatory? The sound of a softly shutting door from the latter direction decided him.
• Otherwise she had no excuse for shutting herself in her room.
• Then she went out, shutting the door softly behind her, lest she wake her.
• He thought first of jumping down, changed his mind, and, shutting his eyes, continued automatically climbing up the ladder.
• If this man had succeeded in shutting the door, the lives of these men would have been saved as well as considerable buoyancy saved to the ship.
• The silence that reigned about Les Touches was so profound that the noise which Calyste made in opening and shutting the gate must have echoed through the garden.
• Another and yet another wave were passed, and we could now see them breaking behind us, shutting out the beach from view.
• The restoration of peace and the shutting out of several Central European rivals had thrown an unprecedented sheaf of rush orders on the Cabell mine.
• Hitherto it has produced no events but the shutting of our ports against France, and the junction of nine ships from Ferrol with the French squadron.
• This serves the double purpose of shutting out the glances of the curious and keeping out the cold air.
• It seemed like shutting a door on you and leaving you outside without any dinner, to go away and have it without you.
• Sleep is supposed to be, By souls of sanity, The shutting of the eye.
• He looked out at a grey tumbled sky shutting down on a grey tumbled sea.
• So he obeyed her, shutting the door firmly after him and advancing to the fireplace.
• If they have not the power, and no one feels willing to go forward in shutting up these poisonous springs, give them the power, and if they do not exercise it, let them suffer.
• He has a wonderful knack at shutting his eyes to the sinister side of anything.
• Few people have the nerve to jump from a precipice, or stand in way of a railway-engine, without first shutting their eyes, and perhaps their ears also.
• He did not notice that this small party was obviously regarded as being in the way by the attendants who were putting out the lights and shutting the doors of the boxes.
• With the tears streaming down her face, and her lips working pitifully, she scrambled up from the floor, and ran into the next room, shutting the door behind her.

Similar words containing SHUTT without suffix ing

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