Deactivated
Shut down and deactivated are semantically related. in decommission topic. In some cases you can use "Shut down" instead a verb "Deactivated".
Nearby Word: deactivating
Shut down
Shut down verb - Cease to operate or cause to cease operating.
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Synonyms for Shut down
Deactivated and shut down are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Deactivated" with "Shut down", this verbs are similar.
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Prentice seems to recall the Retribution timeline, and indirectly references it once (when he says "The last time I saw him, I deactivated all of them," referring to the scene in Retribution when he shot Drakus with a phaser that shut down his Borg technology).
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When its "home" grid was deactivated (Fuchi, which had acquired its hardware, ceased to exist), it concluded that the virus had won and executed its final directive: shut down the grid to destroy the virus.
Source: A.I. Is a Crapshoot
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