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Verb: shut away
  1. Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
    "The reclusive author was shut away to write his novel";
    - lock away, lock, shut up, lock up
     
  2. Deliberately ignore or refuse to think about something unpleasant
    "He tried to shut away the painful memories of his past"

Derived forms: shutting away, shut away, shuts away

Type of: confine