shut in

Definitions

1. 1

   To confine.

   • We need to shut the dog in so he doesn’t escape.
   • Well might the Sun in Darkneſs hide, / And ſhut his Glories in, / When God the mighty Maker dy’d / For Man the Creature’s Sin.
2. 2

   To completely surround or enclose.

3. 3

   To settle down, or fall

   To settle down, or fall; to arrive; (said of evening, etc.)

   • Then there are the golden hues of twilight shadowed in the lake, and the light veil of mist drawing across the foliage of the valley as the evening shuts in upon it.
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   1. 4

      To stop pumping oil from a site, ending production.

The neighborhood

• neighborshut away
• neighborsend away