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- close down and shut down
close down and shut down
close something down and shut something down
to make something stop operating; to put something out of business. The police closed the illegal casino down. The manager shut down the factory for the holidays.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Nacio | | NAH-thyo (Spanish), NAH-syo (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish |
Ping | | - | Chinese |
Finch | | [fintʃ] | |
Carroll | | - | Irish |
Lochlann | | - | Irish |
Arif | | - | Arabic, Indonesian, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali |