to find closure
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5.9
- phrasal verb
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encontrar cierre
- Talking about his feelings helped him to find closure after the painful breakup.
- trying to find closure
Examples
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I also took on the fight to protect my children as much as I could and help them find closure for the dreadful way their father was tortured and murdered.
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You've got to find closure somehow.
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I know how hard it is to find closure.
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As many of you know, I was struggling to find closure surrounding the death of my best friend.
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I'm thankful that you were able to find closure and some measure of peace.
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And all I have is time and I will spare no expense to find closure and healing with you.
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His continued search to find closure and answers to his sister's disappearance is the subject of this documentary.
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She is extremely courageous and loving to encourage me to try to find closure.
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Listen, Isabella thinks this will help her find closure and, quite frankly, it won't hurt me either.
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After many months of therapy, she finally found closure to her traumatic experience.
Synonyms
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7.0
Try to feel better after a painful or upsetting event
How Resolved
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from 'find' (to obtain/discover) + 'closure' (a sense of psychological resolution): together they literally mean to obtain emotional resolution. If a learner already knows the noun 'closure', this compositional pattern is straightforward and common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the MWE.
Etymology
Find closure comes from the image of closing a door or finishing a book after a painful event, where closure is the real closing that ends that chapter of life. So, to find closure means to reach an end to strong feelings and 'move on'.