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. Valerie Szybala:

   They are re-engineering Syria, they have doubled down to close down the last pockets of resistance near Damascus.

2. Felicia Anna:

   Most of the workers start to work after 12 or one o’clock in the morning, when the bars start to close down, now you have maybe two hours to make any money, which is not enough.

3. Chad Wolf:

   So when you close down those pathways like the Biden administration did, they are essentially tying their hands what they can do with these folks and some would say — and I would argue — that's done by design because the only option they really want to do at the end of the day is to release them into the United States.

4. Neil Bradley:

   As a general matter we don't have to close down legal immigration to reopen America, and that is what we are focused on: safely reopening and getting the economy going again.

5. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo:

   By law, no city in the state can close down, can quarantine unless the state government allows it. I will not allow any quarantine of any city or any jurisdiction in this state, so that is not going to happen, there's no discussion of closing down New York City, meaning quarantine geographic constriction.