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Shut Up
- adjective - cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"
- closely confined
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached"
Shut-In
- adjective - confined usually by illness
- someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury
- somewhat introverted
Shuteye
- noun - informal term for sleep
Shutout
- noun - a defeat in a game where one side fails to score
Shutter
- noun - a hinged blind for a window
- a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure
- close with shutters; "We shuttered the window to keep the house cool"
Shuttle
- noun - badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
- bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
- public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points
- travel back and forth between two points
Sifters
- noun - a household sieve (as for flour)
Sifting
- verb - check and sort carefully; "sift the information"
- distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"
- move as if through a sieve; "The soldiers sifted through the woods"
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
- the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women"
Silt Up
- verb - become chocked with silt; "The river silted up"
Silting
- verb - become chocked with silt; "The river silted up"