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1 close in
intransitive verb[Nacht, Dunkelheit:] hereinbrechen; [Tage:] kürzer werdenclose in [up]on somebody/something — (draw nearer) sich jemandem/etwas nähern; [draw around] jemanden/etwas umzingeln
* * *◆ close invi1. (come near) aufrücken, immer näher kommen3. METEOthe weather has \close ind in es hat zugezogen* * *1. vi(evening, winter) anbrechen; (night, darkness) hereinbrechen; (days) kürzer werden; (enemy etc) bedrohlich nahe kommenthe troops closed in around the enemy — die Truppen zogen sich um den Feind zusammen
to close in on sb (gang, individual etc) — jdm auf den Leib rücken
the police are closing in on him — die Polizei zieht das Netz um ihn zu; (physically) die Polizisten umzingeln ihn
2. vt sepumgeben, umfrieden (geh)* * *close in v/i1. (on, upon)b) umzingeln (akk)2. kürzer werden (Tage)3. hereinbrechen (Dunkelheit, Nacht)* * *intransitive verb[Nacht, Dunkelheit:] hereinbrechen; [Tage:] kürzer werdenclose in [up]on somebody/something — (draw nearer) sich jemandem/etwas nähern; [draw around] jemanden/etwas umzingeln
* * *v.jemandem dicht auf den Fersen sein ausdr.kürzer werden (Tage) ausdr.
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