English

Noun

shut out ‎(plural shut outs)

1. Alternative form of shutout

Verb

shut out ‎(third-person singular simple present shuts out, present participle shutting out, simple past and past participle shut out)

1. (sports) To prevent from scoring; to perform a shutout.
2. To close a door on someone, or to exclude.
3. To hide from sight.

   The blinds shut out the glare of the sun.‎

   • 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:

     It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

   • 1915, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger, chapter I:

     Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.