phrasal verb

• shut someone or something away, shut away someone or somethingKeep someone or something inside a place so as not to be seen or contacted by other people.

  ‘Annabelle was shut away in the library for most of the day with a pile of books’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The grand building will close its doors for the final time on Tuesday shutting away 115 years of history.’
  • ‘He was a real human being who didn't shut himself away.’
  • ‘She knew her daughter very well, too, despite how Kimberly tried to hide from her, shut herself away.’
  • ‘The unlucky ones were herded aboard two small freighters, where they were shut away in total darkness in the cargo holds.’
  • ‘A woman was ordered into her basement by two burglars who left her shut away whilst they looted her Whitton home last Friday evening.’
  • ‘Please don't punish your cat by shutting him/her away.’
  • ‘Filmed through the bars they appear to have been shut away in a camp already.’
  • ‘In the worst cases, sufferers can shut themselves away indoors, shunning all social contact.’
  • ‘With the years, Highsmith became ever more like Tom Ripley shut away from humankind in his train compartment, ever more apart.’
  • ‘I cannot believe how my Aunt shut her away like that.’

  Synonyms

  confine, isolate, cloister, sequester, seclude, closet, immure