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店を閉める、戸締まりする

退出するときに建物や店を閉め、次に開けるまで施錠する。

やさしい英語で： To shut and secure a building or business when people leave, usually until it opens again.

• We close up at six.
• She closed up the shop and went home.
• Have they closed up for the night?

使い方： close up for something (The café closed up for the winter.)

類義語： shut, close

反対語： open up

よく使う表現： close up shop, close up for winter

閉じる、塞ぐ

完全に閉じたり、隙間や開口部を塞いだりする。

やさしい英語で： To shut completely or make an opening disappear.

• The flowers close up at night.
• We closed up the hole in the wall.
• The opening closes up when you release the handle.

使い方： close something up (They closed the hole up with cement.)

類義語： seal, shut

反対語： open up

よく使う表現： close up a gap, close up a hole

詰める、密集する

人や物が近づき合い、間の隙間がほとんどなくなる。

やさしい英語で： To move closer together until there is little or no space between people or things.

• The crowd closed up around us.
• Please close up so everyone can fit in.
• The soldiers closed up their ranks as they marched.

類義語： bunch together, move together

反対語： spread out

よく使う表現： close up the ranks, close up together

塞がる、治る

傷が治るにつれて縁がくっつき、開いた部分がなくなる。

やさしい英語で： If a wound does this, its edges join and the opening disappears as it heals.

• The cut is closing up.
• Her wound closed up after a few days.
• Has the small hole closed up yet?

類義語： heal, seal over

反対語： reopen

よく使う表現： close up naturally, close up completely

心を閉ざす、引っ込み思案になる

傷ついたり居心地が悪かったりして、考えや感情を話さなくなる。

やさしい英語で： To stop talking freely or showing your feelings, often because you feel hurt or uncomfortable.

• He closed up when I asked about school.
• She tends to close up around strangers.
• Why do you close up whenever we discuss your family?

類義語： withdraw, clam up

反対語： open up

よく使う表現： close up emotionally, close up around someone

閉じ込める

人や物を閉ざされた空間の中に入れ、外に出さない。

やさしい英語で： To keep someone or something inside a closed space.

• They closed him up in a room.
• The animals were closed up inside a small shed.
• She feared being closed up between those stone walls.

使い方： close someone/something up in something (The prisoners were closed up in a dark cell.)

類義語： confine, shut in, enclose

反対語： release

よく使う表現： close up someone, close up in something