Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to shutter
Participle: shuttered
Gerund: shuttering
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | shutter |
| you | shutter |
| he;she;it | shutters |
| we | shutter |
| you | shutter |
| they | shutter |
Perfect
| I | have shuttered |
| you | have shuttered |
| he;she;it | has shuttered |
| we | have shuttered |
| you | have shuttered |
| they | have shuttered |
Past
| I | shuttered |
| you | shuttered |
| he;she;it | shuttered |
| we | shuttered |
| you | shuttered |
| they | shuttered |
Pluperfect
| I | had shuttered |
| you | had shuttered |
| he;she;it | had shuttered |
| we | had shuttered |
| you | had shuttered |
| they | had shuttered |
Future
| I | will shutter |
| you | will shutter |
| he;she;it | will shutter |
| we | will shutter |
| you | will shutter |
| they | will shutter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shuttered |
| you | will have shuttered |
| he;she;it | will have shuttered |
| we | will have shuttered |
| you | will have shuttered |
| they | will have shuttered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | shutter |
| you | shutter |
| he;she;it | shutter |
| we | shutter |
| you | shutter |
| they | shutter |
Perfect
| I | have shuttered |
| you | have shuttered |
| he;she;it | have shuttered |
| we | have shuttered |
| you | have shuttered |
| they | have shuttered |
Imperfect
| I | shuttered |
| you | shuttered |
| he;she;it | shuttered |
| we | shuttered |
| you | shuttered |
| they | shuttered |
Pluperfect
| I | had shuttered |
| you | had shuttered |
| he;she;it | had shuttered |
| we | had shuttered |
| you | had shuttered |
| they | had shuttered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would shutter |
| you | would shutter |
| he;she;it | would shutter |
| we | would shutter |
| you | would shutter |
| they | would shutter |
Perfect
| I | would have shuttered |
| you | would have shuttered |
| he;she;it | would have shuttered |
| we | would have shuttered |
| you | would have shuttered |
| they | would have shuttered |
Imperative
| you | shutter |
| we | Let's shutter |
| you | shutter |
Verbs conjugated like 'shutter'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'shutter'
chutter,
phutter,
scutter,
shatter,
sputter,
stutter,
butter,
chatter,
chitter,
chunter,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.
Sample Sentences
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Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!
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It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.
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The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.
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This company was shuttered in 2002.
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It has been a dithery decade for nuclear policy. After the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, several countries began shuttering their reactors and tearing up plans for new ones. [December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:]
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After some additional legal wrangling, Morse, exhausted and out of money, withdrew his remaining appeals and shuttered the production in April 1883. [2015, Henry Bial, Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage, page 3:]
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Mollie Wilson was a teenager living with her parents in Donaghmore in Tyrone, Northern Ireland [and said this]: 3rd September [1939] When Chamberlain made his declaration of war, there was violent thunder and lightning and rain shuttered down. I had always trusted rain too. [2011 November 30, Carol Harris, Mike Brown, Blitz Diary: Life Under Fire in the Second World War, The History Press, →ISBN, page 1:]
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It's a bastard of a day, shuttering rain, but I can still shape up the hills off in the distance. [2009 February 5, Ross Raisin, God's Own Country, Penguin UK, →ISBN:]
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... looked at the rain shuttering down outside and thought about the Fosters. He had been a perfect gentleman , although rather old and pernickety and set in his ways, but[…] [2014 July 1, Julian Symons, The Man Whose Dream Came True, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 210:]