close up

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

1. To move people closer together.

   The crowd closed up and I couldn't get through to the train.

2. 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.

3. To heal a cut or other wound

   With stitches, the cut should close up in a week to ten days.

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)

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