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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
Farm House Motel shut down in 2007, and a year later, the property passed to city ownership.
Sadly, it often isn’t until after unassuming dive bars and music venues shut down that their true significance is recognized.
By the next summer, however, The Batter Bowl shut down — not because business was bad, but because I quietly began to shy away from the world I had so confidently built for myself.
Without coal and iron ore, the blast furnaces will shut down within weeks.
The social media giant faces being shut down in the US unless it sells to an American company by 5 April.
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