shutting out
Keeping others away
Shutting out is excluding or blocking something from entry or consideration.
You might shut out noise with headphones, shut out memories you'd rather forget, or shut out a friend after a falling-out: She's been shutting me out since the argument.
In sports, shutting out an opponent means preventing them from scoring at all.
- ignoringDeliberately not noticing
- turning a blind eyeIntentionally disregarding something obvious
- barringExcluding from consideration
- keeping outBlocking from entering
- neglectingFailing to attend to
rejection · isolation · cold shoulder · freezing out · ostracism · exclusion · leaving out · blockade · lockout · locking out · stonewalling · banishment · sidelining · alienation · dismissal · disqualification · privacy · compartmentalization
- interferenceinterfering, meddling, intruding, butting in, obstructing
- detachmentemotional numbness, detached, dispassion, disengaged, indifference
- self-deceptiondenial, delusion, wishful thinking, rationalization, willful blindness
- outperformingsurpassing, exceeding, excelling, outperforming, outdoing
- disconnectiondisconnection, unplug, detach, sever, separation
- restrainingconstraining, restricting, limiting, confining, curbing
shutting outtaking in
Receiving into oneself
absorbing · acknowledging · attending to · noticing · registering
shut, shuts, shutting, shutout, shutdown, outs, outing, outmost, outermost