shut (sth) down
— Phrasal Verb with shut /ʃʌt/ verb [I, T] (present participle shutting, past tense and past participle shut)Definition
› If a business or a large piece of equipment shuts down or someone shuts it down, it stops operating: Many factories have been forced to shut down. We shut the whole computer system down for 24 hours.
(Definition of shut (sth) down from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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