Read full poem →Salmon and sturgeon, lashing with their tails.
Then he shut down the trap door with a ring in it
That jangled even above the general noise,
Dictionary Entry
To close, terminate, or end.
In a Sentence
“They are planning to shut down the entire building at the end of the month.”
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Poetry examples for “shut down”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.