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Reclose

Reclose \Re*close"\ (r[=e]*kl[=o]z"), v. t. To close again.
--Pope.

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reclose

vb. To close or be closed after having previously been opened

Usage examples of "reclose".

Uhlos became aware of his fatal error, it would have been too late to even attempt to reclose the approaches to the hall.

In his hands he held the sword which Bleheris had passed to him before he ordered the Pict to reclose the entrance.

Enter Madame, pushes the triple door, which recloses heavily, brushes with rapid fingers the holywater sprinkler which that pious old man holds out, and carefully makes a graceful little sign of the cross so as not to spot her ribbons.

With a quavering sigh, the girl reclosed her eyes and instantly relapsed into the sleep of trance which was insensibly in the course of the night to merge into natural slumber.

I seized the outstretched hand and drew him forward, then reclosed the door and stood before him a moment in doubt.

It was drops of burning oil from the lamp, finding passage through the cracks in the crazy flooring, which had fallen about me-- for the death trap had reclosed, I suppose, mechanically.

The door at the top of the mausoleum steps we had reclosed but not relocked.

As soon as they forced an entrance, they reclosed the door, to keep out the crowd, which collected very fast, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour.

A person passing out through this window might have reclosed it, and the spring would have caught - but the nail could not have been replaced.

A person passing out through this window might have reclosed it, and the spring would have caught --but the nail could not have been replaced.

There was a sky window to light the place, so that when Bolton reclosed the door we could see well enough.

Alice reached forth and pulled him in, then reclosed the queer little gate and pegged it.

Such, nevertheless, was his selfpossession, that he reclosed his eyes, and went on with his prayer--if that could in any sense be prayer where he knew neither word he uttered, thing he thought, nor feeling that moved him.

Then the carriages were reclosed, and they felt they were being taken off the trucks and being replaced on the wheels.

He hit the button next to the ramp to lower it enough to release his bird, then reclosed the ramp.