shut away

Questions about shut away

What does shut away mean?

shut away means "place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape".

What is another word for shut away?

Close synonyms include lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shut away a common word?

shut away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.