decommission
(verb)
verb
1. withdraw from active service
- The warship was decommissioned in 1998
Definition categories: possession, recall, withdraw
Sentences with decommission as a verb:
- They decommissioned the ship after the accident.
- The Army decommissioned the Sherman tank by filling the turret with cement.
- After his arrest, the officer was decommissioned from the police force.
- The state highway was decommissioned and reverted to local control.