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.
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.
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.
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.
The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events.
If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.