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at close range ThesaurusAdv. | 1. | at close range - very close; "without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up"; "even firing at close range he missed"close up |
at close range
at close rangeIn close proximity to a person or thing. Typically used to describe a nearby target in shooting. Be careful when firing at close range! At close range, I could see that the scary insect was just a harmless June bug.See also: close, rangeat close rangevery near; in close proximity. (Usually used in regard to shooting.) The hunter fired at the deer at close range. The powder burns tell us that the gun was fired at close range.See also: close, rangeat close rangeVery nearby, as in At close range, the rock band was unbearably loud. Derived from shooting- range denotes the distance that missile or projectile can be made to travel-this expression soon came to mean anything in close proximity. See also: close, rangeat close range
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