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closeting

/kloz-it/US // ˈklɒz ɪt //UK // (ˈklɒzɪt) //

衣柜里的东西,衣柜,衣柜里的,衣橱

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
    • : a small private room, especially one used for prayer, meditation, etc.
    • : a state or condition of secrecy or carefully guarded privacy: Some conservatives remain in the closet except on election day. Gay liberation has encouraged many gay people to come out of the closet.
    • : water closet.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : private; secluded.
    • : suited for use or enjoyment in privacy: closet reflections; closet prayer.
    • : engaged in private study or speculation; speculative; unpractical: a closet thinker with no practical experience.
    • : being or functioning as such in private; secret: a closet anarchist.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to shut up in a private room for a conference, interview, etc.: The secretary of state was closeted with the senator for three hours in a tense session.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
apprehend逮捕,抓获,捉拿,缉拿commit承诺,投入,承诺书detain扣留,羁押,拘留,拘押hold持有,举行,保持,持有的incarcerate囚禁,监禁,拘禁,拘押jail监狱,监禁,牢狱之灾,牢房lock up锁掉,锁住,锁上,锁起来remand还押,还押犯,发回重审,收押cage笼子,笼子里,牢笼,笼子里的check检查,检查一下circumscribe绕行,绕开,绕过,围绕着这个问题closet壁橱,橱柜,衣橱,衣柜constrain约束力,约束,拘束,限制curb路边,遏止,路边的,马路牙子ice冰,结冰,制冰,冰冰immure不动产,不动摇,不动的,不稳定impound扣押,扣留,扣压,封锁intern实习生,实习医师,实习医生keep保持,保持保持limit限度,限额,限定,限期nabNABocclude闭塞,堵塞,封闭,遮蔽pen笔,笔者,笔杆子,笔杆restrain克制,拘束,限制,抑制stockade库存,仓库,枪械库,长廊trammel捣蛋鬼,捣乱者,捣鼓,捣毁bastille私生子,私生饭,韧皮部,韧带bottle up灌瓶,瓶子里的东西fence in围墙内,围墙内的,围住了,围墙hold captive扣住,扣押,扣押的,俘虏hold hostage挟持人质,挟持,劫持人质,扣押人质hold in custody扣留,扣押,拘押,扣押在案keep captive扣留,俘虏,扣留在,扣留的keep in custody扣留,关押,羁押,拘留lock in锁定,锁定在,锁住,锁定put away收起,收起来,收回,收好put behind bars身陷囹圄,被关进监狱,身陷囹圄的rail in铁路在,轨在,乘坐火车send to prison送入监狱,送到监狱,送到监狱去,送到监狱里send up送上,送上去,送上去的,发出shut in关闭,关在,闭门不出,关门take prisoner俘虏,俘虏了,俘获,虏获

Examples

  • She opened closet doors, snapped light switches, hunted for stains on the carpet.

  • The officers returned fire, fatally shooting the man in the closet who was later identified as Green.

  • So Wessel-Kroeschell, who has served in the statehouse since 2005, began her challenge to the speaker by looking inside her closet for the perfect pair of denim.

  • If he leaves for college, Gross may bring one of his Capitals jerseys, so he’s reminded of his mom each time he opens his closet in his dorm room.

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  • And Duke was a closet Nazi getting exposed by an avalanche of reporting.

  • One night in 2004, my college boyfriend called me from inside a closet in a north Toronto housing project.

  • But once Kanye came along, Kim had to literally clean out her closet.

  • When I was in the closet in my twenties, I considered suicide almost every day.

  • It should be possible to make an interesting film in a closet with the door shut.

  • I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.

  • He implored Agnes to save him, and this she did by secreting him in a hidden closet behind the huge chimney.

  • But one chance he had, before supper was laid, of a word alone with his mother, in her own closet.

  • Every chest of drawers, and wardrobe, and closet in the house was ransacked, to find bed-quilts and blankets for the army.

  • The Spaniard's boat was lashed so that no mortal could get her clear, and the little craft was used as a sort of lumber-closet.