📖 Definitions of "Close in"
verb
- 1
To enclose, lock up inside something.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Close in"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| draw inverb | (idiomatic, transitive) To attract. |
| closenoun | (physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through. |
| earlynoun | Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time. |
| finishingnoun | The act of completing something. |
| inlockverb | (transitive) To lock in. |
| lock inverb | (transitive, colloquial) To prevent (someone or something) from escaping, deteriorating, or switching to an alternative. |
| close in onverb | (idiomatic) To catch up with in a chase; to near the end of a pursuit. |
| intercloseverb | (transitive, obsolete) To shut in; to enclose. |
| becloseverb | (transitive) To shut up or in; enclose; enwrap. |
| shut inverb | (transitive) To confine. |
| enlockverb | (transitive, archaic) To enclose. |
| incloseverb | (now uncommon) Alternative form of enclose. [(transitive) To surround with a wall, fence, etc.] |
| shutverb | (transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses. |
| includeverb | To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member. |
| inbindverb | (transitive) To bind or hem in; enclose. |
| incarcerateverb | (chiefly US, transitive) To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law. |
| encloseverb | (transitive) To surround with a wall, fence, etc. |
| imboundverb | (archaic) To enclose in limits; to shut in. |
| box upverb | (transitive) To pack into boxes. |
| shut upverb | (ergative, derogatory, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise. |
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