upclose
verbEtymology From up- + close.
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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.