To enclose around; to tighten or shrink; to collapse.
Sometimes it feels like the walls are closing in on me.
To near a goal or completion.
I think we are closing in on the end of this project.
To catch up with in a chase; to near the end of a pursuit.
The police closed in on the suspect.
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