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Synonyms for shut out

Most common

shut exclude banish debar

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To prevent from entering; to block or exclude.

    His wife shut him out of his own house.

Related words

Word family
shutout
Is a kind of
hinder prohibit

Example sentences

  • shut She shut her eyes because the light was so strong.
  • exclude Fill the bottle to the top so as to exclude all air.
  • banish I've tried to banish the memory of him crying.

By length

3 letters
bar1
4 letters
shut1
5 letters
debar
6 letters
banish2
7 letters
exclude2
8 letters
preclude2
9 letters
foreclose2, proscribe2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (banish2 = 2 syllables).