Antonyms for close downclose 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

How to use close down in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Chris Christie in New Hampshire:

   We need leadership in Washington again that understands that closing down the government isn't the right thing to do, when you're hired to govern, and you close down the government, it seems to me a de facto failure.

3. Valerie Szybala:

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

4. Lee Cheuk-yan:

   It's quite sad in a way that we have to close down temporarily, this should not happen in Hong Kong. We are supposed to be free.

5. Andrea Costa:

   The elephant species is in the hands of the Chinese President, once the President decides to close down the legal market of ivory and elephant in China, the poaching of elephants will end.

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