SHUTTING Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

shutting

verb

present participle of shut

as in closing

to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening please shut the door when you leave

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as in closing (down)

to stop the operations of shut both stores for a week

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Recent Examples of shutting Authorities began shutting schools last week to take some steam out of the demonstrations after widespread damage to schools and mounting injuries among staff, students and police. — Nicolas Garriga, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026 Regenerating animals have remarkable ways of turning cell growth on when it’s needed and shutting it off once the missing tissue has been rebuilt. — Junsu Kang, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026 Clinics are closing, schools are shutting their doors, vaccines are not being delivered. — Jeannie Annan, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 Keep Experimenting, Smartly To be clear, none of this is an argument for shutting AI experimentation down. — Adrian Carr, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Years of court battles followed, and ultimately the city of San Jose passed a law shutting him down. — Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026 Picture three competing CEOs, worried that their product might kill people, hopping on a conference call to discuss shutting it all down for a while. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 17 Sep. 2026 The controversial license plate readers have come under fire recently, with several Massachusetts towns shutting their systems down. — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026 On Friday, Iraqi Shia militias affiliated with Iran struck the east-west pipeline, shutting it down temporarily. — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026

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Now that the eleventh-hour challenge was denied, Paramount CEO David Ellison can move forward with closing the merger as planned.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2026
In September, California Department of Education spokesperson Scott Roark said closing Highlands in Twin Rivers Unified would not eliminate its debts, including what is owed to the state.

— Chaewon Chung Updated October 5, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026