Definition of "shut out" []

• Alternative form of shutout. (noun)
• To prevent from scoring; to perform a shutout. (verb)
• To close a door on someone, or to exclude. (verb)

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• "Gossage then silenced the Red Sox for five innings before giving way in the twelfth to Sparky Lyle, who shut out Boston until Graig Nettles hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the fourteenth."
• "The ultimate humiliation is being shut out or “schneidered.”"
• "Tally turned away from the vulpine eyes, shut out the razor-blade voice."