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close to

adverb

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Wiktionary

adv

  1. Approximately.

    “It lasted close to an hour.”

    “It rained for close to forty days and forty nights.”

  2. Nearly; almost.

    “The project is close to finished.”

prep

  1. Near.

    “The chair was close to the window.”

    “She looked fraught and close to tears.”