shutting-up
Ceasing to speak
Shutting-up is the act of becoming silent or making someone else stop talking.
It's the present participle of shut up, used either reflexively I'm shutting up now or transitively He's good at shutting up critics.
The hyphenated form appears mainly as an attributive modifier: a shutting-up gesture, shutting-up money.
Making something still
- hushingQuieting or water-mining
- mutingSuppressing sound output
- silencingStopping noise or dissent
- shushingUrging silence vocally
stifling · muzzling · gagging · suppressing · squelching · zipping · buttoning · clamming
Fixing firmly in position
- boltingDeparting at speed
- securingMaking firmly fixed
- sealingMaking impermeable
- barringExcluding from consideration
latching · fastening · boarding · battening · padlocking · deadbolting · barricading · fortifying
quieting
Making something still
shushing · stifling · muzzling · gagging · suppressing · squelching · zipping · buttoning · clamming · wordlessness
locking
Fixing firmly in position
barring · latching · fastening · boarding · battening · padlocking · deadbolting · barricading · fortifying · winterizing
rebuke
Express sharp disapproval
snap · curt · rude · impolite · dismissive · sharp · blunt · interrupt · cut-off · silence
shutting-upspeaking
Oral expression of language
talking · speaking up · speaking out · vocalizing · chattering
shutting-upspeaking out
speaking up · protesting · dissenting · standing up · advocating