The Collaborative International Dictionary
Close \Close\, v. i.
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To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
--Byron. To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock.
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To grapple; to engage in hand-to-hand fight. They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. --Prescott. To close on or To close upon, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. ``Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage.'' --Sir W. Temple. To close with.
To accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed.
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To make an agreement with.
To close with the land (Naut.), to approach the land.
Usage examples of "to close with".
General Lambsblood wishes you to know about this before he takes steps to close with them in force and annihilate them.
It would be dangerous to close with all those arms and weapons, but the creature must be slow on its feet.
One moment they'd been living warriors, fierce and proud, screaming their war cries as they surged forward to close with their shit-sitter enemies.
Joat said with a grin as the distant fighter began to close with them.
None of them knew what was happening to the head of the column, but they were all Brigade noblemen and anxious to close with the foe.
Three times Bovai had glimpsed his one-time brother, and yet had been unable to close with him.
He dared not allow her to close with him, to take the fight to a point at which that weight and length could make a difference.
Admiral Andrew Foote, commander of the squadron, ordered his boats to close with the fort.
He felt a brief flicker of something almost like admiration for Captain Denbys smoothness, for the other man had come up with what was actually a plausible reason for a merchantman here in Silesia to allow a warship to close with it.
Across the deadly waters, his captains desperately sought to close with the Scylredi submarines.