Close your eyes tightly.

Meaning: This sentence is asking you to shut your eyes as hard as you can.

Choice of Words: When you Close your Eyes, you stop looking. When you Close your Eyes Tightly, you shut them as hard as you can.

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Shut your eyes hard.

Meaning: This means to close your eyes with a lot of force, like when you want to block out the light or concentrate on something.

Choice of Words: Shut means to close something tightly. Eyes are the organs that allow us to see. Hard means to do something with a lot of force or effort. When you put them together, "Shut your eyes hard" means to close your eyes very tightly.

Squeeze your eyelids together.

Meaning: This means to close your eyes by pressing your eyelids together, like when you're trying to keep something out of your eyes.

Choice of Words: Squeeze means to press something tightly. Eyelids are the skin that covers your eyes. Together means to bring two or more things close to each other. When you put them together, "Squeeze your eyelids together" means to press your eyelids tightly against each other.

Close your peepers tightly.

Meaning: This means to close your eyes with a lot of force, like when you want to block out the light or concentrate on something.

Choice of Words: Close means to shut something. Peepers is a playful word for eyes. Tightly means to do something with a lot of force or effort. When you put them together, "Close your peepers tightly" means to shut your eyes very tightly.

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