CLOSE UP

close up

1. [Adverb]: very close; "without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up"; "even firing at close range he missed"

2. [Verb]: refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached"

3. [Verb]: block passage through; "obstruct the path"

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