close up

See also: closeup and close-up

English

Etymology

Dissimilated from Middle English upclosen (“to close up, stop up, seal”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kləʊzˈʌp/

Verb

close up (third-person singular simple present closes up, present participle closing up, simple past and past participle closed up)

To move people closer together.
The crowd closed up and I couldn't get through to the train.
To shut a building or a business for a period of time.
We finally managed to close up the shop for the night at about 10 o'clock.

The car factory has closed up for the August holidays.
To heal a cut or other wound
With stitches, the cut should close up in a week to ten days.
To become less 'open' or communicative, to shrink back.

Derived terms

close up shop

Translations

to move closer together

Finnish: tiivistyä (fi), tiivistää (fi)

to shut for a period of time

Finnish: sulkea (fi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: holde stengt, stenge

of a wound, to heal

Finnish: umpeutua (fi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gro (no) (literally; to grow, grow up)

Anagrams

couples, culpeos, opuscle, up close, upclose

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