Shuttering

verb

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verbTo close shutters covering.

"Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!"

2.verbTo close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.

"It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended."

3.verbTo cancel or terminate.

"The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program."

4.nounThe act of closing something with shutters.

5.nounThe winding down of a business, a publication, etc.

6.nounFormwork.

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