close up

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verb

1. refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent

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The children shut up when their father approached

• Syn:

↑clam up, ↑dummy up, ↑shut up, ↑belt up, ↑button up, ↑be quiet, ↑keep mum

• Ant: ↑open up

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s

2. block passage through

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obstruct the path

• Syn: ↑obstruct, ↑obturate, ↑impede, ↑occlude, ↑jam, ↑block

• Ant: ↑free (for: ↑obstruct)

• Derivationally related forms:

↑blocking (for: ↑block), ↑occlusive (for: ↑occlude), ↑occlusion (for: ↑occlude), ↑impediment (for: ↑impede), ↑obturator (for: ↑obturate), ↑obstructive (for: ↑obstruct), ↑obstruction (for: ↑obstruct), ↑obstructer (for: ↑obstruct), ↑obstructor (for: ↑obstruct)

• Hypernyms: ↑impede, ↑hinder

• Hyponyms:

↑blockade, ↑block off, ↑barricade, ↑barricado, ↑suffocate, ↑stifle, ↑asphyxiate, ↑choke, ↑tie up, ↑dam, ↑dam up, ↑screen, ↑block out, ↑land up, ↑earth up, ↑block, ↑stop, ↑block up, ↑bar, ↑clog, ↑choke off, ↑clog up, ↑back up, ↑congest, ↑foul

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

3. cease to operate or cause to cease operating

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The owners decided to move and to close the factory

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My business closes every night at 8 P.M.

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close up the shop

• Syn: ↑close, ↑fold, ↑shut down, ↑close down

• Ant: ↑open (for: ↑close)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑closedown (for: ↑close down), ↑shutdown (for: ↑shut down), ↑closer (for: ↑close), ↑closure (for: ↑close), ↑close (for: ↑close), ↑closing (for: ↑close)

• Hyponyms: ↑adjourn, ↑withdraw, ↑retire

• Verb Frames:

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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s something

4. unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of

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close the circuit

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close a wound

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close a book

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close up an umbrella

• Syn: ↑close

• Derivationally related forms: ↑closing (for: ↑close)

• Hypernyms: ↑join, ↑bring together

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

II

adverb

very close (Freq. 2)

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without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up

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even firing at close range he missed

• Syn: ↑at close range