mothballed in English

verb
1
store (clothes) among or in mothballs.
He left muttering something about mothballing the suit until next year.

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1. I thought those were mothballed in the'90s.

2. She was then mothballed and returned to rejoin the reserve fleet at Plymouth.

3. Long-mothballed projects like widening the Suez Canal are being dusted off.

4. Thousands of World War II era vehicles are still mothballed today at “Boneyards” throughout the southwestern United States

5. In the following decades most of the Battleships of the major powers were scrapped, “mothballed” (stripped down and placed in storage), or sold to lesser navies

6. In 1923, after the Washington Naval Treaty, there were discussions within the Navy Ministry about closing the facility, and it was largely mothballed until 1936.

7. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on 1 October ordered energy authorities to study the possible use of the mothballed Bataan nuclear power plant and to consult the concerned communities.The Philippines spent $2.3 billion on a 621MWe