close up
Frequency: 7.211.3 per million words
Phrasal verb meaning to close a shop for the night; for a hole or wound to heal.
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Examples (10)
- What time do you usually close up the shop for the night?
- We're closing up now, so you'll have to come back tomorrow.
- The owner closed up early last night because of the storm.
- With proper care, the wound on your hand should close up in a few days.
- Alright everyone, it's ten o'clock. Let's close up!
- I can see the small cut is already starting to close up.
- After the surgery, the incision closed up nicely without any infection.
- We need to start closing up in about ten minutes.
- The sinkhole in the road has finally closed up after the repair work.
- If they don't communicate, the emotional gap between them will never close up.