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Definition of Close off
1. Verb. Stem the flow of. "Shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation"
2. Verb. Isolate or separate. "She was shut off from the friends"
3. Verb. Block off the passage through. "We shut off the valve"
Generic synonyms: Bar, Barricade, Block, Block Off, Block Up, Blockade, Stop
Definition of Close off
1. Verb. To seal or block the entrance to a road, an area, or a building so that people cannot enter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Close Off
Literary usage of Close off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"At noon, close off Portici. Friday, \^th.—PM Moderate breezes and fine. Took the
Neapolitan gunboat in tow : tacked, wore and hove to occasionally close off ..."
2. Nelson and the Neapolitan Jacobins: Documents Relating to the Suppression of by Harold Cooke Gutteridge (1903)
"At noon, close off Portici. Friday, 1^th.—PM Moderate breezes and fine. Took the
Neapolitan gunboat in tow : tacked, wore and hove to occasionally close off ..."
3. The naval history of Great Britain, from ... 1793, to ... 1820, with an by William James (1859)
"The force close off the harbour was now reduced to two frigates, the Euryalus
and Hydra; and it may here be remarked that Lord Nelson was continually ..."
4. The China Sea Directory by John William Reed, John William King, Great Britain Hydrographic Dept (1867)
"Some rocks appear on the chart close off its south-east point, ... has some table
land 800 feet high near its west end; close off the north-west end is ..."
5. The India directory, for the guidance of commanders of steamers and sailing by Alfred Dundas Taylor, James Horsburgh (1874)
"There are no soundings close off its N. side. On the E. and W. are several- shoal
spots of 4 fathoms, yet there is a good deep channel of 25 fathoms close ..."
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