mothball

[US]/'mɒθbɔːl/
[UK]/'mɔθbɔl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. camphor ball used to prevent mildew, moth damage, etc.
vt. put into storage
adj. kept in reserve.

Phrases & Collocations

store with mothballs

Example Sentences

He keep his car in mothballs during the winter.

This paper provides synthesizer's heat exchanger area design method of additive mothballing wall temperature bondage condition in analysed corrosion mechanism of hydrogen chloride synthesizer.

In the paralic zone .there are ample oil and gas resources, moreover, it is the important mothball area and reliver of oil and gas industry to increase reserves and enhance output.

to put clothes in mothballs

mothballing a nuclear reactor

mothballing a space mission

Real-world Examples

" I wonder is that more mothballs? " she thought, stooping down to feel it with her hand.

Source: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

You also smell like mothballs and Ben-Gay.

Source: Young Sheldon - Season 2

He's got enough on his hands, getting the uniforms out of mothballs.

Source: Downton Abbey (Audio Segmented Version) Season 2

Might as well get a bigger box, more mothballs, put me away too.

Source: Prosecution witness

The portrait of her that once hung at her alma mater Oxford University was mothballed.

Source: Time

Back then, it was hanging mothballs around your child's neck to prevent the scourge popularly known as infantile paralysis.

Source: Time

There's naphthalene, the main ingredient in mothballs.

Source: Crash Course Comprehensive Edition

A mothball was not useful at all.

Source: Pan Pan

Fearful of another Chernobyl or Fukushima, it mothballed its nuclear reactors.

Source: Economist Business

After the Second World War, the Navy scrapped many of its ships and sent many more into a ready-reserve " mothball" fleet.

Source: The Atlantic Monthly (Article Edition)

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