Close

verb

1. to move so as to bar passage through something
2. to reduce to nil
3. to fill up (something, such as an opening)
4. to make complete by circling or enveloping or by making continuous
5. enclose, containarchaic
6. to contract, fold, swing, or slide so as to leave no opening
7. to cease operation
8. to come together : meet
9. to draw the free foot up to the supporting foot in dancing
10. to come to an end or period
11. to enter into or complete an agreement
12. to block against entry or passage
13. to reduce a gap
14. to draw near
15. to engage in a struggle at close quarters : grapple
16. Chuck 1940–2021 Charles Thomas Close American painter
17. to deny access to
18. to suspend or stop the operations of
19. screen, exclude
20. to bring to an end or period
21. to terminate access to (a computer file or program)
22. to conclude discussion or negotiation about
23. to consummate (see consummate entry 2 sense 2) by performing something previously agreedalso
24. to bring or bind together the parts or edges of