Opens and Shut

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Shut is an antonym for opens in topics: clear, honest, accessible, undecided, begin.

Shut verb - To position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening.

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Opens is an antonym for shut.

Nearby Words: shutdown, shutting

This time however, the door slams shut with the ghost inside, and when it finally opens the child is nowhere to be found.

Source: Film / Insidious
One opens in the city and sells mysterious items to several people with cryptic instructions; on catching wind of this, the authorities shut the place down and confiscate the items.

Source: Podcast / The Hidden Almanac
Shut Hell (also known as Shuto Heru, or more accurately Shutohel) is an ongoing Seinen manga by Itoh Yu.The story opens in present-day Japan, where a boy called Sudou is plagued with vivid recurring dreams of a battle in which a young woman and her comrades defend their doomed fortress.

Source: Manga / Shut Hell

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