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Shut down   /ʃət daʊn/   Listen
Shut down

verb
1.
Cease to operate or cause to cease operating.  Synonyms: close, close down, close up, fold.  "My business closes every night at 8 P.M." , "Close up the shop"






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"Shut down" Quotes from Famous Books



... to carry out his resolve: but at the last, shut down the flood-gates of emotion, fell back on years of self-discipline, and told his heart he was a fool. He had yet to learn that there is a folly worth more than all the wisdom of philosophers, the folly of a man who loves a woman ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver

... had immediately shut down his hand, now opened it. "Yes," he said, "it's a beautiful piece of work. ...
— The Spanish Jade • Maurice Hewlett

... glimpse that Gloria had of his change of heart was at a dinner party. The discussion began by a dyspeptic old banker declaring that before the business world could bring the laboring classes to their senses it would be necessary to shut down the factories for a time and discontinue new enterprises in order that their dinner buckets and stomachs might ...
— Philip Dru: Administrator • Edward Mandell House

... of courage; how he would blow out the candle in the cabin, and fire at random into his crew, on the ground 'that if he did not kill one of them now and then they would forget who he was'; how he would shut down the hatches, and fill the ship with the smoke of brimstone and what not, to see how long he and his could endure a certain place,—to which they are, some of them, but too probably gone; how he has buried ...
— At Last • Charles Kingsley

... another launching of the lifeboat for hours. The night shut down over the wind-ridden sea and shore, and by the pallid light fitfully playing over the tumbling waters the watchers along the sands saw the stricken Curlew being slowly wrenched to pieces by the waves that wolfed about and ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper


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