close off

close something off

to prevent entrance into something; to block something off. Please don't close this passageway off. They closed off the passageway anyway.

To prevent passage along or through something: The police closed off the main avenue for a parade. Park rangers closed the lake off to motorboats.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Enos	EE-nahs (English)	Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Wigheard	-	Anglo-Saxon
Aegidius	-	Late Roman
Catriona	ka-TREE-na, ka-TREE-o-na	Irish, Scottish
Kotone	ko-to-ne	Japanese
Zakariyya	-	Arabic