Meaning

adjective at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other

verb move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut

adverb near in time or place or relationship

originFrom Middle English closen (“to close, enclose”), partly continuing (in altered form) earlier Middle English clusen (“to close”) from Old English clȳsan (“to close, shut”); compare beclose, foreclose, etc.), and partly derived from Middle English clos (“close, shut up, confined, secret”, adjective), from Old French clos (“close, confined”, adjective), from Latin clausus (“shut up”, past…

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