Etymology

beshut

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Today it means: To shut in or inclose; shut up or confine. Full definition →

Middle English beshutten
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  1. Middle English · inherited frombeshutten
  2. English todaybeshut

From Middle English beshutten, bishetten, equivalent to be- + shut.

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