close up

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	close up - 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" close down, shut down, close, fold adjourn, retire, withdraw - break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library"
	2.	close up - block passage through; "obstruct the path" obturate, occlude, impede, obstruct, jam, block block off, blockade - obstruct access to barricado, barricade - block off with barricades barricade - prevent access to by barricading; "The street where the President lives is always barricaded" asphyxiate, suffocate, stifle, choke - impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" tie up - restrain from moving or operating normally; "Traffic is tied up for miles around the bridge where the accident occurred" dam, dam up - obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River" block out, screen - prevent from entering; "block out the strong sunlight" earth up, land up - block with earth, as after a landslide barricade, block, block up, blockade, block off, bar, stop - render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" clog, clog up, congest, choke off, foul, back up, choke - become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" hinder, impede - be a hindrance or obstacle to; "She is impeding the progress of our project"
	3.	close up - unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of; "close the circuit"; "close a wound"; "close a book"; "close up an umbrella" close bring together, join - cause to become joined or linked; "join these two parts so that they fit together"
	4.	close up - refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached" be quiet, belt up, button up, clam up, keep mum, shut up, dummy up open up - talk freely and without inhibition
Adv.	1.	close up - very close; "without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up"; "even firing at close range he missed" at close range