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1. close up, close, fold, shut down, close downverb

   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"

   Antonyms:
   open up

   Synonyms:
   block, come together, pen up, belt up, shut, button up, fill up, impede, conclude, be quiet, dummy up, clam up, keep mum, close, close down, obstruct, fold, obturate, turn up, shut down, fold up, shut up, jam, occlude

2. obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close upverb

   block passage through

   "obstruct the path"

   Antonyms:
   open up

   Synonyms:
   immobilize, close, button up, fold, block up, crush, lug, halt, ram, obturate, jam, pile, pack, block off, blank out, mob, freeze, obstruct, deflect, parry, stop, embarrass, shut up, kibosh, draw a blank, hinder, impede, block, clam up, forget, chock up, throng, stuff, stymy, blockade, immobilise, bar, be quiet, occlude, barricade, dummy up, cram, wad, keep mum, choke up, jampack, stymie, shut down, belt up, close down

3. close up, closeverb

   unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of

   "close the circuit"; "close a wound"; "close a book"; "close up an umbrella"

   Antonyms:
   open up

   Synonyms:
   block, come together, belt up, shut, button up, fill up, impede, conclude, be quiet, dummy up, clam up, keep mum, close, close down, obstruct, fold, obturate, shut down, shut up, jam, occlude

4. close up, clam up, dummy up, shut up, belt up, button up, be quiet, keep mumadverb

   refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent

   "The children shut up when their father approached"

   Antonyms:
   open up

   Synonyms:
   block, shut away, belt up, hush, button up, dummy, impede, lock away, lock up, hush up, be quiet, still, dummy up, clam up, keep mum, close, close down, obstruct, put away, lock in, fold, obturate, lock, shut down, quieten, shut up, jam, silence, occlude

5. close up, at close rangeadverb

   very close

   "without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up"; "even firing at close range he missed"

   Antonyms:
   open up

   Synonyms:
   at close range

How to use close up in a sentence?

1. Ukraine Trump:

   99.9 % of young people recover, 99 % of people recover. We have to recover. We can't close up our nation.

2. Richard Moissl:

   What’s unusual about this object is that this is rather rare, that an object of this size passes so close to Earth. Interstellar Lab Food pods happens about once every 10 years, but this is a once in a decade opportunity to get some nice close-up measurements in a relatively large body that is relatively easy to measure to that effect.

3. Diane Kruger:

   The funny part is that Quentin’s hands are in the close-up, but Quentin Tarantino said, ‘ [ Christoph Waltz is ] not going to do it right, it ’ll either be too much or too little. ’.

4. Charlie Chaplin:

   Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

5. Kimee Moore:

   Finding something as minute as these changes in something so immense as Jupiters magnetic field was a challenge, having a baseline of close-up observations over four decades long provided us with just enough data to confirm that Jupiters magnetic field does indeed change over time.

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