shut oneself up in
1shut oneself off — isolate oneself from other people …
2immure oneself — shut oneself up …
3cloister oneself — v. shut oneself up in a convent or monastery …
4put up or shut up — informal justify oneself or remain silent they called for the alderman to either put up or shut up * * * ˌput up or ˈshut up idiom (especially BrE) used to tell sb to stop just talking about sth and actually do it, show it, etc. Main entry:… …
5introvertish shut-in — introversive introversive adj. (Psychol.) directed inward; marked by interest in oneself or concerned with inner feelings. Contrasted with {extroversive}. [Narrower terms: {introvert, introverted, introvertive}; {introvertish, shut in ]. Antonym …
6put up or shut up — ► put up or shut up informal justify oneself or remain silent. Main Entry: ↑put …
7put up or shut up — informal justify oneself or remain silent. → put …
8Seclusion — (Roget s Thesaurus) Exclusion. < N PARAG:Seclusion >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 seclusion seclusion privacy Sgm: N 1 retirement retirement Sgm: N 1 reclusion reclusion recess Sgm: N 1 snugness snugness &c. >Adj. Sgm …
9hide — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. skin, pelt, coat; leather. See covering. v. cover, secrete, cloak, veil; dissemble, falsify; hole up; disguise, camouflage. See concealment, secret. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Skin of an animal] Syn. pelt …
10sequester — verb 1) he sequestered himself from the world Syn: isolate oneself, hide away, shut oneself away, seclude oneself, cut oneself off, segregate oneself; closet oneself, cloister oneself, withdraw, retire 2) the government sequestered his property… …
