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suspect shuffled when asked the names of his accomplices.
--n. 4 shamble, shambling, scuffling, scraping: Whenever he
was lying, he did a funny little shuffle with his feet. 5
sidestep, evasion, subterfuge, trick, dodge, shift,
prevarication, quibble, shuffling: Tell me what you've done
with the money - and no shuffle!
shun v. avoid, keep or shy away from, steer clear of, eschew, shrink
from, fight shy of, run or turn (away) from, flee or escape
from; forgo, give up; disdain, spurn, rebuff, reject,
cold-shoulder, give the cold shoulder to: After her experience,
Penelope shunned the company of men for several years.
shut v. 1 close, fasten, secure, shut up; lock, bolt, seal: Come in
and shut the door. 2 shut down. close down, discontinue, cease,
suspend, halt, leave off, shut up; switch or turn or shut off,
stop: We shut down operations at the Enfield factory last week.
Make sure you shut down the machinery before leaving. 3 shut in.
a confine, seclude, keep in, pen, fence in, secure: We shut the
dog in before we went out. b See 6, (a), below. 4 shut off. a
switch or turn off, shut down, Colloq kill, douse, cut (off):
They shut off the lights while I was shaving. b separate,
isolate, seclude, segregate, sequester, bar, shut out, cut off,
send to Coventry: The more violent cases are shut off in
another wing. c close (off), shut (down): To save on heating,
we shut off part of the house in the winter. 5 shut out. a
exclude, eliminate, bar, debar, lock out, ban, keep out or away,
disallow, prohibit: Aliens without work permits are shut out
from employment. We shut out all hooligans and rowdies. b keep
out, screen, exclude, block out, cut out: This window shade
shuts out the direct sunlight. c screen, mask, hide, conceal,
veil, cover: The house is shut out from view by the hedge. 6
shut up. a confine, shut in, coop (up), cage (in), bottle up,
box in; imprison, jail, incarcerate, intern, immure: People
suspected of being subversives were shut up during the war. b
silence, keep quiet, stifle, mute, gag, shush, Chiefly Brit
quieten: As soon as Colin wants to say something, Sidonie shuts
him up. c See 1, above. d See 2, above.
--adj. 7 closed (up), sealed (up), locked (up), bolted,
fastened: There is not much hope of penetrating their shut
minds on this issue.