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mothball  (mothballs plural & 3rd person present) (mothballing present participle) (mothballed past tense & past participle )
1  n-count A mothball is a small ball made of a special chemical, which you can put among clothes or blankets in order to keep moths away. 
2  verb If someone in authority mothballs a plan, factory, or piece of equipment, they decide to stop developing or using it, perhaps temporarily.  (JOURNALISM) 
...the decision to mothball the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, for safety and political reasons...  V n