how to pronounce shut

/ʃʌt/

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shut is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of shut in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… your consciousness would shut down your …”

meaning of shut

Shut means to close something, to stop something from opening.

shut frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word shut occurs in english on average 51.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics shut can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that shut can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;