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  1. To enclose, lock up inside something. (transitive)
  2. To come or approach nearer to someone being pursued. (intransitive) · The police had not yet caught the thieves, but were closing in.· Keep refining your estimate, and you will gradually close in on the right answer.
  3. To become closer, surround.
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Fearing for their lives, the Mice kept themselves close in their holes.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 51 · B2
Then, when I flash a light upon them, close in swiftly.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 27 · B2
“We must close in on him rapidly, for he is said to be a desperate fellow.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 121 · C1

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