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close up

English

  1. 🔊 very close
    “without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up”
  2. 🔊 refuse to talk or stop talking
    “The children shut up when their father approached”
  3. 🔊 unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
    “close the circuit”
  4. 🔊 cease to operate or cause to cease operating
    “The owners decided to move and to close the factory”
  5. 🔊 block passage through
    “obstruct the path”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 cerrar to close up, to close off (e.g. a wound)

Similar words

clam up dummy up shut up belt up button up be quiet keep mum close obstruct obturate impede occlude jam block close fold shut down close down at close range approach bang bar barricade batten