Close and Expressing

Close

Close verb - To position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening.

Expressing is an antonym for close.

Nearby Words: closed, closeness, closing, closely, closure

Expressing

Definitions of Close not found.

Close is an antonym for expressing in articulate topic.

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / The Night Angel Trilogy 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.
  • Literature / Mansfield Park 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.
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