mothball in English
noun
1
a small pellet of a pungent substance, typically naphthalene, put among stored clothes to keep away moths.
For optimal protection, store in acid-free, nonplastic containers, or in garment bags with mothballs or cedar chips.
verb
1
store (clothes) among or in mothballs.
He left muttering something about mothballing the suit until next year.
noun
camphor ball
Use "mothball" in a sentence
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1. Midway spent five years in the mothball fleet at Bremerton, Washington before being taken over by a museum group.
2. India plans to mothball its mainstay MiG-21 Soviet-era fighter jets, which have earned the sobriquet "flying coffins" because of their dismal safety record.
3. A total of 13 piers were constructed along the west bank of the St. Johns River adjacent to NAAS Green Cove Springs to house a U.S. Navy "Mothball Fleet" of some 500 vessels, primarily destroyers, destroyer escorts and fleet auxiliaries.