close up (English, verb)
expansion: close up (third-person singular simple present closes up, present participle closing up, simple past and past participle closed up)
Senses:
glosses: To close (remove a gap) completely or fully.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To move nearer together so that a gap is removed.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To shut a building or a business for a period of time.
tags: ambitransitive
glosses: Of a cut or other wound: To heal.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To become less 'open' or communicative; to shrink back.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To stop talking.
tags: Australia
intransitive
slang
Forms:
form: closes up
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: closing up
tags: participle
present
form: closed up
tags: participle
past
form: closed up
tags: past