Synonyms for close down
close down

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1. close downverb

   Synonyms:
   shut down, close up, shut up

2. close downverb

   To stop trading as a business.

   Synonyms:
   shut up, shut down, close up

3. close downverb

   To surround someone, as to impede their movement.

   If anyone passes to Smith, close him down.

   Synonyms:
   close up, shut up, shut down

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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, close up, keep mum, close, obstruct, fold, obturate, turn up, shut down, fold up, shut up, jam, occlude

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1. Emma Sinclair-Webb:

   It is an unvarnished move for an arbitrary, mass and permanent purge of the civil service, prosecutors and judges, and to close down private institutions and associations without evidence, justification or due process.

2. Omar Sharmarke:

   There is a corridor they use as a launching pad, there are efforts to close down this corridor which they have been using for the last few years.

3. James Clyburn:

   If you say that you're going to have college -- free two-year college -- among public institutions, why would a student go to an HBCU? And most of which are private institutions, what will happen is these HBCUs will all close down all across America because they would not be able to afford to stay open.

4. Joe Manchin:

   We're going to vote and it's going to be in the CR, and if they're willing to say, ‘We’re going to close down the government because of a personal attack on me…' This is what makes people sick about politics.

5. President Trump:

   We have to have borders, and we have to have them fast, and we need security. We need the wall. We're going to have it all. And again, that wall has started. We got 1.6 billion. We come up again on September 28, and if we don't get border security, we'll have no choice. We'll close down the country because we need border security.