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closingadjective following all others of the same kind in order or timethe orchestra's closing piece is traditionally the national anthem bottommost, concluding, final, hindmost, lag, last, latest, latter, rearmost, terminal, terminating, ultimate consequent, ensuing, eventual, following, succeedingconclusive, crowning, decisive, definitivefarthermost, farthest, furthermost, furthest, remotestlowermost, lowest, nethermostendmost, extreme, outermost, outmost, utmostpenultimate beginning, earliest, first, foremost, headmost, inaugural, initial, leadoff, maiden, opening, original, pioneer, primary, starting eminent, premier, superior closingnounthe last part of a process or actiona stand-up comedian has to have a strong closing if he wants a spirited round of applause capper, close, conclusion, consummation, end, endgame, ending, finale, finis, finish, grand finale, homestretch, mop-up, windup, wrap-up acme, apex, capstone, climax, copestone, coup de grâce(or coup de grace), crescendo, crown, culmination, high-water mark, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, tip-top, top, zenithaftermath, anticlimax, coda, epilogue(also epilog), postscriptshank, tag end, tail end baseline, beginning, dawn, day one, nascence, nascency, opening, start foreword, introduction, overture, preamble, preface, prelude, prologue(also prolog) closingverbpresent participle of closeto position (something) so as to prevent passage through an openingbe sure to close the gate when you leave making(chiefly dialect), shutting, steeking(chiefly Scottish) barring, battening (down), bolting, chaining, fastening, latching, lockingplugging, sealing, stopperingsecuringbanging, clapping, slamming opening unbarring, unbolting, unchaining, unfastening, unlatching, unlocking, unsealing to stop the operations ofthe merchant will close the store if business doesn't improve closing (down), closing out, shutting phasing out, turning offextinguishing, quelling, suppressinggagging, muzzling, silencingfailing, folding opening, starting building, expanding to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping pointwe'll close the assembly with the singing of our national anthem closing out, completing, concluding, ending, finishing, rounding (off or out), terminating, winding up, wrapping up climaxing, crowningconsummating, perfectinghalting, stopping, suspending putting paid to(chiefly British), ringing down the curtain (on) beginning, commencing, inaugurating, opening, starting to come to an endthe services closed with a short prayer breaking off, breaking up, ceasing, concluding, dead-ending, determining, discontinuing, dying, elapsing, ending, expiring, finishing, going, halting, lapsing, leaving off, letting up, passing, quitting, stopping, terminating, winding up, winking (out) desisting (from), laying off (of), refraining (from)giving over(British), knocking off, packing (up or in)breaking down, conking (out), cutting out, stallingpausing, staying, suspendingabating, petering (out), winding down biting the dust continuing, hanging on, persisting drawing out, extending, prolonging, protracting to come near or nearerthe two groups closed with each other from opposite sides of the field approaching, bellying up, closing in, coming up, drawing on, nearing, nighing arriving, attaining, coming, gaining, hitting, landing, making, reaching, showing up, turning up, waltzing (up)creeping up, sneaking upadjoining, bordering, touching, verging backing (up or away), receding, retiring, retreating, withdrawing clearing out, departing, exiting, going, leaving, lighting out, pulling out, quitting, removing, running away, shoving (off), taking off, walking out in 1596 |