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. Walid Nakschbandi:

   Having observed her close up, he's got knowledge that very few people in Germany have.

2. Scott Bolton:

   The general theme of our discoveries is really how different Jupiter looked from how we expected, this is a close-up and personal look at Jupiter. We thought it was uniform inside and relatively boring. What we're finding is anything but that.

3. New Horizons:

   New Horizons is on a journey to a new class of planets we've never seen, in a place we've never been before, for decades, we thought Pluto was this odd little body on the planetary outskirts; now we know it's really a gateway to an entire region of new worlds in the Kuiper Belt, and New Horizons is going to provide the first close-up look at them.

4. Charlie Chaplin:

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

5. Ukraine Trump:

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