What does closing off mean?

closing off means "the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others".

What is another word for closing off?

Close synonyms include isolation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is closing off a common word?

closing off is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

closing off — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
Synonymsisolation
Broaderseparation
Narrowerquarantine

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What does closing off mean?: closing off means "the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others".
What is another word for closing off?: Close synonyms include isolation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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