shut in

present singular third person shuts in · participle present shutting in

1. transitiveTo confine.

   We need to shut the dog in so he doesn’t escape.

   1 more example

   Well might the Sun in Darkneſs hide, / And ſhut his Glories in, / When God the mighty Maker dy’d / For Man the Creature’s Sin.

   1707, Isaac Watts, “Godly Sorrow ariſing from the Sufferings of Chriſt”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 86

2. transitiveTo completely surround or enclose.
3. datedintransitiveTo settle down, or fall; to arrive; (said of evening, etc.)

   Then there are the golden hues of twilight shadowed in the lake, and the light veil of mist drawing across the foliage of the valley as the evening shuts in upon it.

   1846, George Barrell Cheever, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc, page 6

4. transitiveTo stop pumping oil from a site, ending production.