shut out

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verb

prevent from entering;
shut out (Freq. 3)
- The trees were shutting out all sunlight
- This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country
• Syn:
exclude, keep out, shut
• Ant:
admit (for: exclude)
• Derivationally related forms:
shutter (for: shut), exclusion (for: exclude)
• Hypernyms:
prevent, keep
• Hyponyms:
excommunicate, unchurch, curse, lock out, ostracize, ostracise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something