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upclose

verb

Etymology

From up- + close.

  1. derived from *kleh₂w-✻
  2. derived from clausus
  3. derived from clos
  4. inherited from clos — “close, shut up, confined, secret”
  5. inherited from clȳsan
  6. inherited from clusen — “to close”
  7. inherited from closen
  8. prefixed as upclose — “up + close”

Definitions

  1. To close up.

    • My pains are otherwise: upclosing cramps / And stiffened tendons from this country's damps.
    • a. 1843, unknown author (initialled N. P. S.), "Lines to an Alabaster Sarcophagus" Some pious Thebans, when the storm was past, / Upclosed the sepulchre with cunning skill.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA