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close up

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1. close up - Noun

2. close up - Adjective

3. close up - Verb

4. close up - Adverb

Meaning

very close

refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent

block passage through

unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of

cease to operate or cause to cease operating

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close-up

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What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big. Bob Dylan

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up. Kathleen Turner

The first thing I'd do in my first day as president is close up our borders so that illegal immigrants cannot come into our country. Donald Trump

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh. Erich Maria Remarque

The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events. Robert Hughes

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up. Penn Jillette

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