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close down

UK/kləʊzˈdaʊn/US/kloʊzˈdaʊn/

close down verb: to stop trading as a business.

Verb

close down (third-person singular simple present closes down, present participle closing down, simple past and past participle closed down)

  1. (ambitransitive) To stop trading as a business.
    • The local factory will close down soon, unless sales pick up.
    • They had to close the mine down as it was in a dangerous condition.
  2. (transitive) To surround someone, as to impede their movement.
    • If anyone passes to Smith, close him down.
    Synonyms:
    shut down

close down meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Malay

close down in Tamil

to close down; terminate
ஒடுக்கு oṭukku

close down in Malayalam

close-2, shut down, cease production
അടച്ചുപൂട്ടുക, അടയ്ക്കുക, പൂട്ടുക, പൂട്ടിക്കെട്ടുക, ചുരുട്ടിക്കെട്ടുക, അടച്ചുപൂട്ടിയിടുക

close down in Kannada

ಸ್ಥಗಿತಗೊಳಿಸು

close down in Malay

to stop trading
gulung tikar
More languagesFewer languages
close down in Vietnamese
đóng cửa

Synonyms of close down

Forms of close down

third-person singular presentcloses down
present participleclosing down
past participleclosed down
pastclosed down

Words formed from close down

Words that rhyme with close down

19 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about close down

What does close down mean?
Close down means to stop trading as a business.
What is close down in Tamil?
Close down in Tamil is ஒடுக்கு (oṭukku). See Close down meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is close down?
Close down is a verb.
How do you pronounce close down?
Close down is pronounced /kləʊzˈdaʊn/ (UK).
What is the past tense of close down?
The past tense of close down is closed down.

Words near close down in the dictionary

  1. close captioning
  2. close chair
  3. close chairs
  4. close combat
  5. close communion
  6. close down
  7. close encounter
  8. close encounters
  9. close enough
  10. close enough for government work
  11. close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: close down (page history and authors); ஒடுக்கு (Tamil) (page history and authors); close down (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); close down (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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