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View definitions for shut down

shut down

verb as in close up

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The agencies have also faced criticism and lawsuits by pro-Palestinian protesters after officers shut down multiple demonstrations that year.

But the spread of the fire that began in Porto de Sanabria in mid-August caused it to be shut down.

From BBC

It’s not as if the next pitcher shut down the Phillies.

To me, the impulse to shut down the other side, combined with the “change my mind approach” to debate, has only exacerbated political polarization and entrenchment.

From Salon

Unite said staff were being laid off with "reduced or zero pay" following the hack, which has forced the carmaker to shut down its IT networks and halted production.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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