Word.ws English Dictionary

upclose

upclose verb: to close up.

Verb

upclose (third-person singular simple present upcloses, present participle upclosing, simple past and past participle upclosed)

  1. (poetic) To close up.
    • My pains are otherwise: upclosing cramps / And stiffened tendons from this country's damps.1909, Thomas Hardy, Panthera
    • a. 1843, unknown author (initialled N. P. S.), "Lines to an Alabaster Sarcophagus"
      Some pious Thebans, when the storm was past, / Upclosed the sepulchre with cunning skill.

Forms of upclose

third-person singular presentupcloses
present participleupclosing
past participleupclosed
pastupclosed

Origin of upclose

From up- + close.

Questions about upclose

What does upclose mean?
Upclose means to close up.
What part of speech is upclose?
Upclose is a verb.
What is the past tense of upclose?
The past tense of upclose is upclosed.

Words near upclose in the dictionary

  1. upclock
  2. upclocked
  3. upclocking
  4. upclocks
  5. upclomb
  6. upclose
  7. upclosed
  8. upcloses
  9. upclosing
  10. upcoast
  11. upcode

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upclose (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “upclose.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/upclose. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.