Close
Close verb - To position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening.
Expressing is an antonym for close.
Expressing
Both words in one sentence
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This is also as close as we see him to expressing regret, but he soon gets over it.
- Spends a lot of alone time with the protagonist late in the series, during which she gets close to him and ends up expressing love for him.
Source: Analysis / RahXephon -
Also, Edmund was this close to proposing to Mary Crawford when she decided to write that letter expressing that she hoped Tom Bertram would die so Edmund would inherit the estate.
Source: Literature / Mansfield Park
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