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close someone or something down

to force someone or someone's business, office, shop, etc., to close permanently or temporarily. The health department closed the restaurant down. They closed down the same place last year, too.

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The big packers did not turn their hands off and close down, like the canning factories; but they began to run for shorter and shorter hours. The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context The livelong day he sat in his loom, his ear filled with its monotony, his eyes bent close down on the slow growth of sameness in the brownish web, his muscles moving with such even repetition that their pause seemed almost as much a constraint as the holding of his breath. Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context And in all seriousness they have set a gun- boat to watch the vessel night and day, with orders to close down on any revolutionary movement in a twinkling The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context			clip from clip on clip out of clip wings cloak cloak in secrecy cloak-and-dagger clock clock at clock in clock out clock up clock-watcher clockwork clog clog up clog with close close a deal close a sale close around close as two coats of paint close at hand close call close chewer and a tight spitter close down close down and shut down close enough for government work close enough to use the same toothpick close eyes to close in close in for the kill close off close on Close only counts in horseshoes close out close out of close ranks close shave close the books on close the door on close to close to heart close to home close to the bone close up close up shop close with Close your eyes and think of England Close, but no cigar closed			Close Combat Testbed Close Combat Training System Close Combat Vehicle, Light Close Combat Weapon Close Combat Weapon System Close Combat: First to Fight Close communion Close Companies Close Companies Close Companies close company close company close company close contact close contact close contact infection close control close corporation close corporation close corporation Close Corporations Close Corporations Close Corporations close correspondence close couple close couple Close Coupled Over Fire Air close coupling Close Cover Before Striking Close Cover Before Striking School of Knitting close down close down and shut down Close Encounter at Beaver City close encounter of the first kind Close Encounter of the Second Kind close encounter of the third kind Close encounters of the 3rd kind Close Encounters of the Third Kind Close Encounters With Music Close End Credit Close End Credits Close End Lease Close End Lease Close End Lease Close End Leases Close End Leases Close End Leases Close enough for government work Close enough for government work close enough to use the same toothpick close eyes close eyes close eyes close eyes close eyes to close fast Close fertilization Close Focus Lens Close Focus Wide Angle Close Friends of the Victim Close front rounded to unrounded diphthong

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