Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun close_up

1 sense of closeup

Sense 1
closeup -- (a photograph taken at close range)
       => photograph, photo, exposure, picture, pic -- (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material)

Antonyms of verb close_up

1 of 4 senses of close up

Sense 4
close up, clam up, dummy up, shut up, belt up, button up, be quiet, keep mum -- (refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached")
       Antonym of open up (Sense 7)
      => open up -- (talk freely and without inhibition)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb close_up

4 senses of close up

Sense 1
close up, close, fold, shut down, close down -- (cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop")

Sense 2
obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up -- (block passage through; "obstruct the path")
       => impede, hinder -- (be a hindrance or obstacle to; "She is impeding the progress of our project")

Sense 3
close up, close -- (unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of; "close the circuit"; "close a wound"; "close a book"; "close up an umbrella")
       => join, bring together -- (cause to become joined or linked; "join these two parts so that they fit together")

Sense 4
close up, clam up, dummy up, shut up, belt up, button up, be quiet, keep mum -- (refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached")

Synonyms of adv close_up

1 sense of close up

Sense 1
close up, at close range -- (very close; "without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up"; "even firing at close range he missed")