Synonyms for shut down
shut down

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1. close up, close, fold, shut down, close downverb

   cease to operate or cause to cease operating

   "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop"

   Synonyms:
   block, come together, pen up, belt up, shut, button up, fill up, impede, conclude, be quiet, dummy up, clam up, close up, keep mum, close, close down, obstruct, fold, obturate, turn up, fold up, shut up, jam, occlude

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1. Todd Becker:

   Some plants will slow down, some will shut down, some will shut down forever.

2. James Scot:

   If you don’t feel ordained by the Universe to do this job, do something else. The intelligence community has to shut down the gaping wound that is the insider threat epidemic we are experiencing right now.

3. James Collins:

   At minimum, doing it helps maintain what you have, especially as an athlete and a football player, as he’s going through a season and his bodies getting beat up, everything starts to shut down — ‘Boy, I feel stiff. I’m sore. I can’t do this.’ But if you’re doing things throughout the season, like yoga, to help maintain what you’ve established with your body, that helps you get through the season, helps reduce your chance of injury and things of that nature.

4. Jorge Garcia-Bengochea:

   Children have been through very traumatic situations and they've shut down. Just being around the animal, they get animated, they start talking and they actually sometimes tell the horse things that they haven't told other people.

5. Charles Krauthammer:

   Number one, they depend hugely on tourism to get their foreign exchange. Sharm el-Sheikh is one of their number one tourist destinations. The only way to get there is by airplane. You shut down the airport, it dies, the second [reason they’re afraid] is that the Egyptian regime is in a death struggle with radical Islam in the country… And now if they're able to bring down airplanes, the prestige of the regime in sort of winning the battle against the jihadists is really diminished.