SHUT DOWN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does shut down mean? 

• SHUT DOWN (verb)
  The verb SHUT DOWN has 1 sense:

1. cease to operate or cause to cease operating

  Familiarity information: SHUT DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHUT DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cease to operate or cause to cease operating

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

close; close down; close up; fold; shut down

Context example:

close up the shop

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shut down"):

adjourn; retire; withdraw (break from a meeting or gathering)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The business is going to shut down

Derivation:

shutdown (termination of operations)

 Context examples 

It is able to use nitric oxide to shut down arrestin-based pathways causing side effects.

(Heart Disease Severity May Depend on Nitric Oxide Levels, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

As a result endogenous pituitary output of FSH and LH is shut down.

(Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Antagonist, NCI Thesaurus)

The results suggest that if we could shut down PIEZO2 in the area of a wound, we would hopefully relieve the pain and speed recovery.

(Study identifies gene that makes gentle touch feel painful after injury, National Institutes of Health)

Although this global field somehow shut down, local spots of increased magnetic fields, called crustal magnetic anomalies, still remain in Mars' surface.

(Blue Aurorae in Mars’ Sky Visible to the Naked Eye, NASA)

Brief exposure to a chemical that shut down the mosquitoes’ carbon dioxide receptor rendered them unable to react to carbon dioxide from exhaled breath.

(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)

Before the night shut down she was seen with sails idly flapping as she gently rolled on the undulating swell of the sea.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Samoan government declared a state of emergency on November 15, shut down all schools as of November 17, and later banned children from public gatherings in an effort to curb the spread of the disease.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

Drugs and hormones inevitably regulate both pathways, but if one could shut down the pathway producing side effects, drugs would work better.

(Heart Disease Severity May Depend on Nitric Oxide Levels, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The coming of the cloud was too quick for me to see much, for shadow shut down on light almost immediately; but it seemed to me as though something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)