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This clause can be used to describe someone closing something (e.g. a door, a window) or themselves (e.g. in a hug). Example: John closed himself in the room and refused to come out.
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Bill's closed himself up.
He closed himself in an absolutist cocoon and has allowed voting on the draft to begin.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern".
According to the police, Richard Leopold apparently closed himself in the car in the garage with the motor running.
But, after setbacks and political intrigues, Charles closed himself off, operating more and more through calculated manipulation.
There, he met people like Daisy, whose mother is dead and whose father has closed himself away.
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Aardsma, 30, is certainly capable of closing himself.
His attitude has been to close himself off completely in order to focus on his recovery.
She insists he is closing himself off from her by fetishising his time overseas.
His father didn't "close himself off with the work," he said.
One, named Ripley, managed to return to the Carson Center and close himself back in.
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