close one's eyes

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Verb

close one's eyes (third-person singular simple present closes one's eyes, present participle closing one's eyes, simple past and past participle closed one's eyes)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see close,‎ one's,‎ eyes.

   Jim put his headphones over his ears and closed his eyes.

2. (idiomatic) To ignore something.
3. (idiomatic) To sleep.

   I wanna close my eyes, why don't you drive for a bit?

Derived terms

• close one's eyes and think of England
• close one's eyes for the last time

 

Translations

to close one's eyes

• Bengali: চোখ বোজা (bn) (cōkh bōja)
• Swedish: blunda (sv)

to ignore

• Finnish: sulkea silmänsä, ummistaa silmänsä
• French: fermer les yeux (fr), ignorer (fr)
• Latvian: pievērt acis, piemiegt acis
• Russian: закры́ть глаза́ (ru) (zakrýtʹ glazá), смотре́ть сквозь па́льцы (ru) (smotrétʹ skvozʹ pálʹcy)
• Swedish: blunda (sv)

to sleep

• Swedish: blunda (sv)