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▸ verb: (intransitive) To close, to stop being open.
▸ verb: (transitive or intransitive, chiefly British) To close (a business) temporarily.
▸ verb: (transitive) To confine in an enclosed area.
▸ verb: (transitive) To isolate, to close off from the world.
▸ verb: (transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
▸ verb: (transitive) To preclude, exclude.
▸ adjective: Closed; not open.
▸ adjective: (linguistics, phonetics, archaic) Synonym of close
▸ noun: The act or time of shutting; close.
▸ noun: A door or cover; a shutter.
▸ noun: The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
▸ noun: (British, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
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close,
shut out,
keep out,
exclude,
compressed,
blinking,
tight,
winking,
squinting,
unopen,
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