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