Synonyms for close up
close up

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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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   open up

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

   block passage through

   "obstruct the path"

   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

   Antonyms:
   open up

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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   open up

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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   open up

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"

   Synonyms:
   at close range

   Antonyms:
   open up

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1. close up

   Synonyms:
   unite, join, consolidate, bring together

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1. Ursula K. LeGuin:

   If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

2. John Kerry:

   A lot of people felt that because of the hard fought election and the nature of the presidential contest that they would never come together and that Afghanistan would literally split wide open as a result, close up that is not what I saw.

3. Charlie Chaplin:

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

4. Britta Carlson:

   It was just a huge close-up picture of a disgusting penis.

5. Charlie Chaplin:

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