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noun
verb (used with object)
2.
to put into storage or reserve; inactivate.
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adjective
Idiom3.
inactive; unused; stored away: a mothball fleet.
4.
in mothballs,
a.
in disuse or in storage, especially with reference to standby equipment.
b.
(of ideas) dismissed as unworthy of further deliberation.
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Word Origin & History
mothball
1906, naphthalene ball stored among fabrics to keep off moths, from moth + ball. The verb in the figurative sense is first recorded 1949, in ref. to retiring of U.S. warships after World War II.
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