close up
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(adverb) very close; "without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up"; "even firing at close range he missed" |
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Synonyms: at close range |
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(verb) refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached" |
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Synonyms: be quiet, belt up, button up, clam up, dummy up, keep mum, shut up |
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Antonyms: open up |
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(verb) block passage through; "obstruct the path" |
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Synonyms: block, impede, jam, obstruct, occlude |
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Related Words: back up, bar, barricade, barricado, block, block off, block out, block up, blockade, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, dam, dam up, earth up, foul, hinder, impede, land up, screen, suffocate |
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