What is "mothballed"

Usage examples of "mothballed".

Full of mothballed strap-on boosters, tanks, engines, other Energiya components, pretty much deteriorated.

A couple of hapless foundry yard staff on their way to investigate the noises and light coming from the mothballed shed were caught and reduced to a fog of granular ash.

Once that situation is ended, the asteroids will be mothballed and their populations returned to the home star system’s terracompatible planet.

Worse, much of the huge stockpile of mothballed warships the Fleet had built up since the Old Enemies' disappearance, steadily assembling the mammoth reserve forces its doctrine called for, had been seriously depleted by the war against the New Enemies.

Cold comfort when the Ring was mothballed for a generation, and there was no other facility available that could possibly follow up on the results.

The facility is expected to be mothballed shortly, thanks to the financial backlash of the K-Crash.

They were the ones who helped us build the Watch Wheel, to stand on sentry duty at the kugelblitz, and helped us locate all the caches and centers of mothballed Heechee apparatus all over the Galaxy .

And we've intercepted messages that make it clear they know where to find the rockets, the missiles, that the world mothballed a century ago.

He'd watched in cold, disapproving silence while field artillery guns by the hundreds—including the surviving mobile Hellbores General Hightower had used to defend Madison—were mothballed in armory yards scattered across Jefferson.

As a quid pro quo, the senator, who was on the Armed Forces Appropriations Committee, had rubber-stamped Richardson's request that Fort Howard be mothballed and sold off to private enterprise.

The overall effect was perfect: a mothballed military installation, still off-limits to everyone except a few locals who serviced the skeleton staff working there.