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CLOSE UP
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
Example:
The children shut up when their father approached
Synonyms:
be quiet; belt up; button up; clam up; close up; dummy up; keep mum; shut up
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
open up (talk freely and without inhibition)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
Example:
close up an umbrella
Synonyms:
close; close up
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "close up" is one way to...):
join (cause to become joined or linked)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Block passage through
Example:
obstruct the path
Synonyms:
block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "close up" is one way to...):
hinder; impede (be a hindrance or obstacle to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "close up"):
block off; blockade (obstruct access to)
barricade; barricado (block off with barricades)
barricade (prevent access to by barricading)
asphyxiate; choke; stifle; suffocate (impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of)
tie up (restrain from moving or operating normally)
dam; dam up (obstruct with, or as if with, a dam)
block out; screen (prevent from entering)
earth up; land up (block with earth, as after a landslide)
bar; barricade; block; block off; block up; blockade; stop (render unsuitable for passage)
back up; choke; choke off; clog; clog up; congest; foul (become or cause to become obstructed)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Cease to operate or cause to cease operating
Example:
close up the shop
Synonyms:
close; close down; close up; fold; shut down
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "close up"):
adjourn; retire; withdraw (break from a meeting or gathering)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very close
Example:
even firing at close range he missed
Synonyms:
at close range; close up
Classified under:
