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shut down
See close down , def. 1.
Stop or switch off machinery, as in They shut down all the machines for one week a year . [Late 1800s]
Example Sentences
“It will hurt children and families and seniors and women and older Americans and Americans with disabilities. Hospitals will close, nursing homes could shut down, and in fact, people could die.”
When news about Alhurra filtered out — along with talk that even MBN might shut down — many observers saw it as an own goal, a misguided rollback of U.S. soft power in the Middle East.
When Ground Game’s board rejected that proposal, the trio “began interfering” with Knock LA, and the parent organization shut down their Knock email accounts soon after.
"The applicant may be forced to effectively shut down the Facebook and Instagram services in Nigeria in order to mitigate the risk of enforcement measures," the company said in the court papers.
With the help of UC Davis lawyers, DeCarli appealed the decision, but he also had to begin shutting down the study in anticipation of a second rejection or a long appeal process.
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