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shut down

With or without an object

Stop operating (a business or computer)

The system shut down without warning.

With or without an object

It can be used with no object, and it can also take one. With an object it is usually separable: turn the volume up, turn it up.

The particle: down

This verb belongs to the group ‘breaking and closing’.

Others in the group: break down, close down.