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CLOSED IN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Blocked against entry
Example:
a closed porch
Synonyms:
closed; closed in
Classified under:
Similar:
enclosed (closed in or surrounded or included within)
Context examples:
Yet it would have fared ill with them had not the archers from either side closed in upon the flanks of the attackers, and pressed them very slowly and foot by foot down the long slope, until they were on the plain once more, where their fellows were already rallying for a fresh assault.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As we arrived the Indians, a semicircle of spearmen, had closed in on them, and in a minute it was over, thirty or forty died where they stood.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The brother and sister would return as they had come, and be expecting us, when the day closed in, at the fireside.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I sent them aboot their business pretty quick; but as just after a fog closed in on us I felt a wee bit as they did anent something, though I wouldn't say it was agin the big box.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
His face was thin and brown and crafty, with a perpetual smile upon it, which showed an irregular line of yellow teeth, and his crinkled hands were half closed in a way that is distinctive of sailors.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
