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Strongest matches

adjacent, convenient

Strong matches

abutting, adjoining, approaching, handy, impending, nearest, neighboring, nigh, warm

Weak matches

across the street, around the corner, at hand, contiguous, give or take a little, hard by, immediate, imminent, in spitting distance, in the ball park, near-at-hand, nearly, next, proximate, under one's nose

Strongest matches

solid, tight

Strong matches

circumscribed, compact, confined, confining, congested, consolidated, cropped, crowded, firm, narrow, packed, restricted, short, thick

Weak matches

close-grained, impenetrable, impermeable, jam-packed, substantial

Strongest match

similar

Strong matches

exact, faithful, literal, resembling

Weak matches

conscientious, lifelike, strict

Strongest matches

dear, devoted, familiar, related

Strong matches

attached, loving, private, thick

Weak matches

buddy-buddy, chummy, confidential, cozy with, inseparable, kissing cousins, making it with, on top of each other, palsy-walsy, thick as thieves, thick with

Strongest match

tight

Strong matches

choky, confined, heavy, stale, stifling, suffocating, sweltering, thick

Weak matches

airless, breathless, fusty, moldy, motionless, muggy, musty, stagnant, stale-smelling, sticky, stuffy, sultry, sweltry, uncomfortable, unventilated

Strong matches

hidden, private, retired, secluded

Weak matches

buttoned-up, buttoning one's lip, clamming up, close-lipped, closemouthed, hush-hush, mum's the word, reticent, secretive, silent, taciturn, tight chops, tight-lipped, uncommunicative, unforthcoming, zipping one's lips

Strongest match

tight

Strong matches

mean, narrow, penny-pinching, skinflint

Weak matches

chintzy, closefisted, illiberal, mingy, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, skimpy, tight-fisted, ungenerous

Strongest match

conclusion

Strong matches

adjournment, cease, cessation, completion, culmination, denouement, end, finale, finish, period, stop, termination, wind-up

Weak match

desistance

Strongest matches

block, shut, shutter

Strong matches

bang, bar, bolt, button, caulk, choke, clap, clench, clog, confine, congest, cork, dam, exclude, fasten, fill, lock, occlude, plug, screen, secure, slam, stopper, stuff

Weak matches

prevent passage, put to, retard flow, shut off, stop up, turn off

Strongest matches

conclude, do, end, halt, shutter

Strong matches

cap, cease, clear, clinch, consummate, culminate, determine, discontinue, fold, terminate, ultimate

Weak matches

button down, button up, call it a day, call off, cut loose, drop the curtain, fold up, pack it in, put a lid on, put to bed, sew up, shut down, wind down, wind up, wrap up

Strongest matches

agree, meet

Strong matches

bind, chain, coalesce, connect, couple, encounter, fuse, grapple, inclose, tie

Weak matches

come together, put together, tie up