close up

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To close (remove a gap) completely or fully. intransitive
    — Some flowers close up at night to stay protected from the cold.
  2. To move nearer together so that a gap is removed. intransitive
    — The crowd closed up and I couldn't get through to the train.
  3. To enclose, confine. transitive
    — In Sanʿa the Jews have been separated from the Mohammedan population for the last three hundred years, and closed up in a Ghetto apart from the main town.
  4. To shut a building or a business for a period of time. ambitransitive
    — We finally managed to close up the shop for the night at about 10 o'clock.
  5. Of a cut or other wound: To heal. intransitive
    — With stitches, the cut should close up in a week to ten days.
  6. To become less 'open' or communicative; to shrink back. intransitive
    — to close up emotionally
  7. To stop talking. Australia,intransitive,slang

词形变化

closes up present,singular,third-person closing up participle,present closed up participle,past closed up past

词汇关系

衍生词
close up shop

词源

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