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closing off

closing off is the present participle and gerund of close off.

Meaning of close off

Verb

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

  1. To seal or block the entrance to a road, an area, or a building so that people cannot enter.
    • The police closed off the street while they investigated the murder scene.

Questions about closing off

What is closing off the present participle and gerund of?
Closing off is the present participle and gerund of close off.

Words near closing off in the dictionary

  1. closing forms
  2. Closing Government
  3. closing in
  4. closing in on
  5. closing in upon
  6. closing off
  7. closing one eye
  8. closing one's doors
  9. closing one's ears
  10. closing one's eyes
  11. closing one's eyes and thinking of England

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Adapted from Wiktionary: closing off (page history and authors); close off (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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