closes (down)

verb

present tense third-person singular of close (down)
as in shuts
to stop the operations of the coal mine was closed down in the 1930s

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for closes (down)
  1. shuts
  2. closes
  3. closes out
Verb
  • Your middle schooler walks in, drops her backpack and shuts the bedroom door.
    — Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2026
  • There’s a brief pause, and then my phone goes haywire, inundated with Bluetooth signal spam — new Airpods connections, contact requests, an avalanche of popups that make my phone basically unusable until Hedge shuts it off.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of shuts
Verb
  • One reason the early childhood brain development window closes without intervention is that our diagnostic tools were not built to look through the mother-child nexus.
    — Holly Baines, STAT, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The sentence closes a criminal case that grew from an endangerment arrest into a sweeping prosecution tied to multiple deaths and reshaped how Texas regulates unlicensed care homes and the agents who steer older adults into them.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of closes
Verb
  • The announcement comes as Slayyyter closes out an insanely successful year.
    — Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2026
  • First-time headliners Riley Green and Zach Top will anchor the first two nights of the country music festival, before genre superstar Garth Brooks closes out the final night.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of closes out
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closes (down)
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“Closes (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/closes%20%28down%29. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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