if you shut something out, you stop yourself from seeing it, hearing it, or thinking about it
to not allow someone to enter a particular place
He closed the door to shut out the noise.
I tried to shut the incident out of my mind.
She put her hands over her ears as if to shut out the terrible thoughts that were rushing at her.
shuts out
shutting out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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