What is "out of action"

Usage examples of "out of action".

Pendulum clocks wouldn't do on board ship, since the swaying would put the pendulum out of action.

The rolling pall of smoke to port was all but impenetrable, but looking to starboard he could see both the French and English squadrons, still out of action but closing rapidly now.

I imagine I'll be out of action for a week or so following each round of actual surgery.

And every ship of the wall we can force them to divert to guarding a star twenty or thirty light-years behind the front is just as much out of action as one we’.

And every ship of the wall we can force them to divert to guarding a star twenty or thirty light-years behind the front is just as much out of action as one we've blown apart.

Never did any vessel come out of action in a more dreadful plight.

As a CIA report points out, human spies had effectively been put out of action.

In two low-level attacks he had put the heavy machine guns out of action and holed the ship below the waterline.

At the moment the, electric light is out of action, the key of the locked door has been mislaid, and firearms are being promiscuously flourished in the dark.

If they can put those catapults out of action or occupy their crews, we can attack behind them.

Putting the 3 Springers out of action was not the end of the incident.

The driver apparently did not think it necessary to take the gun out of action.