0 to gradually get nearer to someone, usually in order to attack them: --
The hunt chased the fox until it was too tired and weak to run and then closed in for the kill.
The advancing soldiers closed in on the town.
1 to move toward someone or something gradually and from all directions: --
It felt as though the walls of the room were closing in on her.
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