Definition of "at close range" []

• Very close (adverb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Thrace had invented the peltast, the quick and mobile lightly armed infantryman who fought at close range with a knife or at a distance with a javelin."
• "Half his section was finished, and he felt remarkably lucky still to be alive himself, for it had been pure reaction when he shot dead the Russian who had suddenly appeared at close range spraying wildly with a submachine-gun."
• "Then Alexander was struck by an arrow shot at close range that penetrated his armor and went into his chest, puncturing a lung."