shuttering

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English

Definitions

verb

To close shutters covering.“Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!”
To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.“It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.”
To cancel or terminate.“The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.”

noun

The act of closing something with shutters.
The winding down of a business, a publication, etc.
Formwork.

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Synonyms

closed volet shushing cockshut hushing squelching shusher shuddering blink shright shouting shudder sluttery screeching shriekery shimmying

Associated

formwork poured concrete retail disney stores wooden filled removed walls store headquarters

Rhymes

fluttering muttering jittering flittering tittering stuttering uttering skittering guttering twittering

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