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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To close (remove a gap) completely or fully.

   “Some flowers close up at night to stay protected from the cold.”

2. fiil To move nearer together so that a gap is removed.

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

3. fiil To enclose, confine.

   “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. fiil 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.”

5. fiil Of a cut or other wound: To heal.

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

6. fiil To become less 'open' or communicative; to shrink back.

   “to close up emotionally”

7. fiil To stop talking.