Word "CLOSURE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
an obstruction in a pipe or tube
Synonyms:
block, blockage, occlusion, stop, stoppage

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
Synonyms:
cloture, gag law, gag rule

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
Synonyms:
law of closure

Crossword Clues for CLOSURE

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Feeling of resolution (7) The Guardian Quick 17 Jun 2025
End or conclusion (7) Mirror Classic 08 Jun 2025
Shutdown is so cruel after broadcast (7) The Guardian Quick Cryptic 24 May 2025
Act of shutting The Times Concise 31 Mar 2025
Conclusion Mirror Classic 29 Mar 2025
The end is near, capturing Russia in retreat (7) The Guardian Cryptic 11 Feb 2025
Shut-down(7)
Cold look facing certain end The Telegraph Cryptic 19 Dec 2024
Shutdown Newsday 10 Nov 2024
End of clues or anagram (7)
Idiot wasting time before certain shutdown (7)
Cessation (7) Puzzler 26 Sep 2024
Termination of Chief Legal Officer? No problem! (7)
Revise clues or finish (7)
Folding clothes, ignoring the certain loss of face (7)
Many behold certain shutdown (7)
Device that seals something (7)
Conchie gets tiro in ... certain to be the end (7)
What returning an ex's stuff may bring USA Today 30 Jul 2024
Resolution could be so cruel The Times Quick Cryptic 17 Jul 2024
Ancient city in near shutdown (7)
Final shut-down (7)
Emotional resolution USA Today 06 Jun 2024
Regularly allows to be involved in remedy - which might resolve a traumatic experience (7)
The end of unusual course around lake (7)
Winding up idiot, endlessly confident
Tend to accept defeat, in short shut down (7)
Shutdown (during a pandemic, e.g.) (7)
"I know that it's over / I don't need your ___" (Taylor Swift) Universal 12 Mar 2024
End or conclusion Mirror Classic 12 Feb 2024
Finish (7) Puzzler 27 Jan 2024
The Spanish surrounded by smoke in shutdown (7)
Shut-down Eugene Sheffer 12 Apr 2023
Fool shortly facing guaranteed shutdown The Guardian Quiptic 20 Mar 2023
Ending Family Time 28 Aug 2022
What finally ending something can bring Family Time 02 Aug 2022
Sense of resolution USA Today 25 Jun 2022
Sense of finality USA Today 09 Dec 2021
Fifty retained by firm before certain shutdown
Feeling of finality LA Times Daily 28 Mar 2021
Feeling of finality The Washington Post 28 Mar 2021
Ending unfortunately so cruel The Sun Two Speed 07 Mar 2021
Shutdown The Sun Two Speed 07 Mar 2021
Resolution almost lost in course of recovery
Resolution of emotional upheaval The Times Concise 10 Jul 2020
What exes often seek Wall Street Journal 05 Jun 2019
Sense of finality Universal 13 Feb 2019
Sense of finality
What exes often seek
Resolution made by idiot, endlessly confident The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Dec 2018
Sense of conclusion that an ex-lover may seek?
Emotional resolution The Times Concise 07 Mar 2018
Sense of completeness Universal 10 May 2017
End result of 23? The Telegraph Toughie 22 Feb 2017
Sense of completeness
Trauma sufferer's goal The Washington Post 25 Dec 2016
Conservative, behold, confident in tie The Times Cryptic 21 Nov 2016
Permanent end of business The Telegraph General Knowledge 13 Nov 2016
Cold look facing certain bankruptcy The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Nov 2016
Sense of finality Thomas Joseph 19 Jul 2016
The end is nigh and you are blocking it
Remedy involving large – initially very large – resolution
Clues or confusion lead to shut-down The Sun Two Speed 02 Feb 2016
Conclusion The Sun Two Speed 02 Feb 2016
Remedy to get round bereavement, mostly? The Telegraph Toughie 21 Oct 2015
Shutdown The Telegraph Quick 23 Jul 2015
Trauma sufferer's goal USA Today 18 Jun 2015
Ending The Telegraph Quick 24 Feb 2015
Finality
Trauma sufferer's goal
Regularly with cell phone, it's definite end
Resolution
Trauma sufferer's goal
Cessation of operations
Sense of completeness
A funeral often provides it
Sense of completeness
Conclusion
Sense of completeness
Sense of psychological completeness
Sense of psychological completeness
Trauma sufferer's goal
Occlusion
Sense of finality
Sense of completeness
Sense of finality
Shutdown
What many mourners seek
Conclusion
Successful wrap-up
Sense of completeness
Title for this puzzle?
Finality
Occlusion
Ending
Finish
Shutdown
Method of ending debate.
Need to move on, sometimes
One way to end a filibuster.
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