Definition of "shut down" [shut down]

• To close, terminate, or end (verb)
• To turn off or stop. (verb)

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• "Much of the section of freeway that is being shut down winds through a hillside pass near Beverly Hills and other communities that are susceptible to brushfires."
• "Harley told James that they would immunize some of the animals in the lab with EBV peptides that looked like the Sm B self-protein, and that if these Epstein-Barr protein pieces produced lupus in them he would shut down several other projects in order to test whether that association could also be found in humans."
• "“At one point on the trip back to Earth it got so bad,” Aldrin jokes, “that we could have shut down our attitude-control thrusters and done the job ourselves!”"