close up

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I - verb

1. refuse to talk or stop talking;
fall silent
- 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:
- Somebody ----s
2. block passage through
- 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:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
3. cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- The owners decided to move and to close the factory
- My business closes every night at 8 P.M.
- 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:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
4. unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- close the circuit
- close a wound
- close a book
- close up an umbrella
• Syn:
close
• Derivationally related forms:
closing (for: close)
• Hypernyms:
join, bring together
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something

II - adverb

very close (Freq. 2)
- without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up
- even firing at close range he missed
• Syn:
at close range