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| NOUN: | 1. An area partially or entirely enclosed by walls or buildings: atrium, court, courtyard, enclosure, quad, quadrangle, yard. See PLACE. 2. A concluding or terminating: cease, cessation, closing, closure, completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, end of the line, finish, period, stop, stopping point, termination, terminus, wind-up, wrap-up. See CONTINUE. 3. The last part: conclusion, end, ending, finale, finish, last1, termination, wind-up, wrap-up. See START. | | VERB: | 1. To bring or come to a natural or proper end: complete, conclude, consummate, end, finish, terminate, wind up, wrap up. See START. 2. To come together: converge, meet1. See OPEN. 3. To move (a door, for example) in order to cover an opening: shut. See OPEN. 4. To plug up something, as a hole, space, or container: block, choke, clog, congest, cork, fill, plug, stop. See FULL. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Oppressive due to a lack of fresh air: airless, stifling, stuffy. See BREATH, OPEN. 2. Nearly equivalent or even: neck and neck, nip and tuck, tight. See NEAR. 3. Not deviating from correctness, accuracy, or completeness: exact, faithful, full, rigorous, strict. See CAREFUL. 4. Not far from another in space, time, or relation: adjacent, contiguous, immediate, near, nearby, nigh, proximate. Idioms: at hand, under one's nose, within a stone's throw, within hailing distance. See NEAR. 5. Very closely associated: chummy, familiar, friendly, intimate1. Informal : thick. Slang : tight. Idioms: hand in glove with. See LOVE. 6. Ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money: cheap, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, mean2, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, pinching, stingy, tight, tightfisted. See GIVE. 7. Not speaking freely or openly: close-mouthed, incommunicable, incommunicative, reserved, reticent, silent, taciturn, tightlipped, uncommunicable, uncommunicative. See RESTRAINT, SOUNDS. 8. Having all parts near to each other: compact1, crowded, dense, packed, thick, tight. See TIGHTEN. 9. Affording little room for movement: confining, cramped, crowded, narrow, snug, tight. See TIGHTEN. | | ADVERB: | To a point near in time, space, or relation: closely, hard, near, nearby, nigh. See NEAR. | | PHRASAL VERB: | close in To surround and advance upon: besiege, enclose, envelop, hedge, hem. See OPEN. close off To set apart from a group: cut off, insulate, isolate, seclude, segregate, separate, sequester. See INCLUDE. close out To get rid of completely by selling, especially in quantity or at a discount: dump, sell off, sell out, unload. See TRANSACTIONS.
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