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upclosing

upclosing is the present participle and gerund of upclose.

Meaning of upclose

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

Questions about upclosing

What is upclosing the present participle and gerund of?
Upclosing is the present participle and gerund of upclose.

Words near upclosing in the dictionary

  1. upclocks
  2. upclomb
  3. upclose
  4. upclosed
  5. upcloses
  6. upclosing
  7. upcoast
  8. upcode
  9. upcoded
  10. upcodes
  11. upcoding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upclosing (page history and authors); 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.

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