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close in en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To enclose, lock up inside something.
2. (intransitive) To come or approach nearer to someone being pursued.
   • The police had not yet caught the thieves, but were closing in.
   • Keep refining your estimate, and you will gradually close in on the right answer.
3. To become closer, surround.
   • Then we pass through Bebington station, and, entering a cutting, become aware of the usual signs of approach to an urban area—buildings closing in, an all-round increase in smokiness, and the application of brakes. 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 21:

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Deriveds

close in on

Translations (4)

gl encerrar (to enclose, lock up inside something) · gl pechar (to enclose, lock up inside something) · gl choer (to enclose, lock up inside something) · nl insluiten (to enclose, lock up inside something)