"shut down" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-shut down.wav Forms: shuts down [present, singular, third-person], shutting down [participle, present], shut down [participle, past], shut down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|shut<,,shut> down}} shut down (third-person singular simple present shuts down, present participle shutting down, simple past and past participle shut down)
  1. (transitive) To close, terminate, or end. Tags: transitive Synonyms: close down, power down, power off, shut off, turn off, wind down Derived forms: shutdown Translations (to close, terminate, or end): затварям (zatvarjam) (Bulgarian), закривам (zakrivam) (Bulgarian), finigi (Esperanto), sulkea (Finnish), whakaweto (Maori), apagar (Spanish)
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  2. (ergative) To turn off or stop. Tags: ergative Translations (to turn off or stop): apagar (Asturian), спирам (spiram) (Bulgarian), изключвам (izključvam) (Bulgarian), apagar (Catalan), afsluiten (Dutch), uitzetten (Dutch), malŝalti (Esperanto), sammuttaa (Finnish), éteindre (French), apagar (Galician), herunterfahren (German), kikapcsol (Hungarian), mematikan (Indonesian), spegnere (Italian), シャットダウン (Japanese), បិទ (bət) (Khmer), serrar (Ladino), mematikan (Malay), whakaweto (Maori), बन्द गर्नु (banda garnu) (Nepali), estupar (Occitan), wyłączyć [perfective] (Polish), apagar (Portuguese), encerrar (Portuguese), desligar (Portuguese), stinge (Romanian), închide (Romanian), выключить (vyključitʹ) (Russian), остановить (ostanovitʹ) (Russian), istuda (Sardinian), istudare (Sardinian), studai (Sardinian), isključiti [perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), vypnúť (Slovak), izklopiti (Slovene), ugasniti (Slovene), izključiti (Slovene), apagar (Spanish), بند کرنا (Urdu), tắt nguồn (Vietnamese)
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  3. (figuratively, intransitive) To emotionally withdraw into oneself as a defense mechanism; to block out external stressors. Tags: figuratively, intransitive
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  4. (figurative, transitive) To suppress, block out, or reject (an idea or an aspect of one's personality or identity). Tags: figuratively, transitive
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  5. (slang, auto racing, car culture) To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly. Tags: slang
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Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2001 November 2, Justin Hill, Carolyn See, “The Once and Future China / The Drink and Dream Teahouse”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-19:",
          "text": "The time is now, the place the grim industrial city of Shaoyang, China, which has just been informed that its No. 2 Space Rocket Factory is going to shut down.",
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          "ref": "2010, Jonathan Ashcroft, Scavengers, page 41:",
          "text": "Alex quickly shut down her argument. 'But I'm the male. They lead in dancing, why shouldn't I be the lead here too? And besides, I was picked, you applied, which basically means I'm the lead anyway. […]",
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          "ref": "2020 July 1, Daniel Puddicombe, “How can heritage lines recover from enforced closures?”, in Rail, page 30:",
          "text": "The typical business model relies on a line operating intensively from March or April through to September or October, before shutting down during the winter months - at which point essential repairs and maintenance can take place using income accrued during the busy summer months, ahead of the cycle starting over again.",
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        [
          "close",
          "close"
        ],
        [
          "terminate",
          "terminate"
        ],
        [
          "end",
          "end"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To close, terminate, or end."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English ergative verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It's a good idea to shut down the machine before you leave.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "My computer is shutting down as we speak.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:",
          "text": "On the morning of Thursday, November 3, flood water rose over the conductor rails in platforms 1 to 3 of Lewes station and the electric service to London had to be shut down.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To turn off or stop."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "turn off",
          "turn off"
        ],
        [
          "stop",
          "stop"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ergative) To turn off or stop."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ergative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I can't talk to him about the accident; he just shuts down anytime I try.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To emotionally withdraw into oneself as a defense mechanism; to block out external stressors."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "emotionally",
          "emotionally"
        ],
        [
          "withdraw",
          "withdraw"
        ],
        [
          "defense mechanism",
          "defense mechanism"
        ],
        [
          "block out",
          "block out"
        ],
        [
          "stressor",
          "stressor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively, intransitive) To emotionally withdraw into oneself as a defense mechanism; to block out external stressors."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She made a proposal to reorganize the department, but management shut her down.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 March 1, F1NN5TER, 1:12 from the start, in Coming Out, archived from the original on 2024-05-14:",
          "text": "And I learned a lot, and, um, some of it seemed a little bit too interesting? It felt a bit like I uncovered a part of myself that I've been purposefully just shutting down for as long as I can remember and never questioned why.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To suppress, block out, or reject (an idea or an aspect of one's personality or identity)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "suppress",
          "suppress"
        ],
        [
          "block out",
          "block out"
        ],
        [
          "reject",
          "reject"
        ],
        [
          "idea",
          "idea"
        ],
        [
          "aspect",
          "aspect"
        ],
        [
          "personality",
          "personality"
        ],
        [
          "identity",
          "identity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, transitive) To suppress, block out, or reject (an idea or an aspect of one's personality or identity)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I opened that throttle and shut him down.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Brian Wilson, Roger Christian (lyrics and music), “Shut Down”, performed by The Beach Boys:",
          "text": "Tach it up, tach it up / Buddy gonna shut you down",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pass",
          "pass"
        ],
        [
          "vehicle",
          "vehicle"
        ],
        [
          "quickly",
          "quickly"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "auto racing; car culture; auto racing; car culture",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, auto racing, car culture) To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "close down"
    },
    {
      "word": "power down"
    },
    {
      "word": "power off"
    },
    {
      "word": "shut off"
    },
    {
      "word": "turn off"
    },
    {
      "word": "wind down"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zatvarjam",
      "sense": "to close, terminate, or end",
      "word": "затварям"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zakrivam",
      "sense": "to close, terminate, or end",
      "word": "закривам"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to close, terminate, or end",
      "word": "finigi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to close, terminate, or end",
      "word": "sulkea"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to close, terminate, or end",
      "word": "whakaweto"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to close, terminate, or end",
      "word": "apagar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "apagar"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "spiram",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "спирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izključvam",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "изключвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "apagar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "afsluiten"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "uitzetten"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "malŝalti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "sammuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "éteindre"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "apagar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "herunterfahren"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "kikapcsol"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "mematikan"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "spegnere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "シャットダウン"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "bət",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "បិទ"
    },
    {
      "code": "lad",
      "lang": "Ladino",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "serrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "mematikan"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "whakaweto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ne",
      "lang": "Nepali",
      "roman": "banda garnu",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "बन्द गर्नु"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "estupar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "wyłączyć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "apagar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "encerrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "desligar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "stinge"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "închide"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vyključitʹ",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "выключить"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ostanovitʹ",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "остановить"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "istuda"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "istudare"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "studai"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "isključiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "vypnúť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "izklopiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "ugasniti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "izključiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "apagar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "بند کرنا"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to turn off or stop",
      "word": "tắt nguồn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shut down"
}

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