shutting (verb)

  • 71slam — ► VERB (slammed, slamming) 1) shut forcefully and loudly. 2) push or put somewhere with great force. 3) (often slam into) crash or strike heavily into. 4) put into action suddenly or forcefully. 5) informal criticize severely …

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  • 72shut out of — ˌshut ˈout of [transitive] usually passive [present tense I/you/we/they shut out of he/she/it shuts out of present participle shutting out of …

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  • 73clo|sure — «KLOH zhuhr», noun, verb, sured, sur|ing. –n. 1. the act of closing or shutting. 2. closed condition. 3. a thing that closes. 4. the end; finish; …

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  • 74ex|clude — «ehk SKLOOD», transitive verb, clud|ed, clud|ing. 1. to shut out; keep (something) from entering: »Curtains exclude light. 2. to drive out and keep outxpel; banis …

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  • 75BABEL, TOWER OF — BABEL, TOWER OF, the edifice whose building is portrayed in Genesis 11:1–9 as the direct cause of the diversity of languages in the world and the dispersion of mankind over all the earth. According to the preceding narrative, mankind after the… …

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