shut down

1. See close down , def. 1.

2. Stop or switch off machinery, as in They shut down all the machines for one week a year . [Late 1800s]

Example Sentences

“I completely understand why you’re skeptical,” Langer told me, but he said he’s seen improvements in the last year, particularly after fences were installed along Alvarado Street and vendors were shut down.

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The Westminster Mall, opened in 1974 and once a fixture of the community, is shutting down later this year.

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The states administer the benefits, using money from the federal government, which has been unfunded and shut down since 1 October.

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LONDON—In recent days, King Charles III moved decisively to shut down a slow-burning scandal that threatened to tarnish not only his reign but that of his son Prince William.

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In September, they temporarily shut down the internet until they "realised that even they cannot do anything anymore, with flights being cancelled".

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