To obstruct (an opening). / To move so that an opening is closed. / To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.

(now rare, chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field. / (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.

An end or conclusion. / The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction. / (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy. / A grapple in wrestling.

(now rare) Closed, shut. / Narrow; confined. / At a little distance; near. / Intimate; well-loved. / (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.

In a close manner. / (obsolete) secretly; privately

simple past tense and past participle of close

Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open. / (engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To be in a position preventing fluid from flowing.

Near.

(of quantifiers of nouns) Approximately / (informal) Nearly; almost

plural of close