shut up

1. (transitive)To close (a building) so that no one can enter.

2. (transitive)To terminate (a business).

   запере́тьzaperétʹ

3. (transitive)To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container.

   The wicked prince was shut up in the castle dungeon.

   The engineer had shut the locomotive up in the shed for twenty years.

   запере́тьzaperétʹ

4. (derogatory, ergative, imperative, often)Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise.

   You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music – would you mind shutting up?

   He was blathering on about something, but I managed to shut him up.

   Mund stopfen, shut someone's trap: Maul stopfen, den Mund halten

   запере́тьzaperétʹ, заткну́тьzatknútʹ, заткну́тьсяzatknútʹsja

   стули́ти пе́лькуstulýty pélʹku, стуля́ти пе́лькуstuljáty pélʹku

5. (dated, slang, transitive)To murder, kill.

   I just heard that your wife was trying to shut you up for the insurance money.

1. Tom told Mary to shut up.

   Том сказав Мері замовкнути.

   ruТом сказал Мэри замолчать.

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2. I just want you to shut up.

   Я лише хочу, щоб ти замовк.

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3. Will you please just shut up?

   Ти не міг би, будь ласка, просто стулити пельку?

   ruМожет, просто помолчишь?

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4. Why won't Tom just shut up?

   Чому б Тому просто не заткнути пельку?

   ruПочему бы Тому просто не заткнуться?

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5. Shut up and go to sleep.

   Замовкни та йди спати.

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irregular · Lesson

• shut upзробити, робитиTo close (a building) so that no one can enter.
• shut outзакрити, закриватиTo prevent from entering; to block or exclude.
• shut inобмежувати, вкладатиTo confine.
• shut downвимкнути, вимикатиTo close, terminate, or end; to stop operating, either permanently or temporarily.
• shut awayприбрати, прибиратиTo isolate (someone) in a closed-off area or room.
• shut offTo stop or turn off by closing something, such as a valve.