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Definition of "close down" []

  • To stop trading as a business. (verb)
  • To surround someone, as to impede their movement. (verb)

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Use "close down" in a sentence
  • "Possible Motives: Trying to get Lee to drop out so he would become the number one GTT pledge; revenge on Dr. Darity for threatening to close down the frats."
  • "Then climbing the Cristo Couloir on Friday with Janet, skiing Sunday to close down Ajax for the season, and starting all over next Wednesday with a trip to ski Mt."
  • "They close down one lane of traffic for emergency vehicles, and as we slow to a bumper-to-bumper crawl, these black kids run up to the bus windows with their cell phone cameras to see if they can take pictures of the dead body, the three-hundred-dollar sneakers poking out from under the sheet a giveaway of how old these corpses are."
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