Started up is a phrasal verb meaning to launch or initiate something. The antonyms of started up are to shut down, cease, or stop. Shutting down or stopping something can imply that a process or project has reached its end. In the case of a business, shutting down could mean bankruptcy, or if it's a product, it's no longer available in the market. Conversely, ceasing something can be a temporary pause or break. For example, you can cease driving for a bit to rest your eyes or let someone else take over. Whatever the reason, the antonyms for started up have a definitive sense of finality to them.

What are the antonyms for Started up?

• v.

  • energize
  • bore
  ,
  • calm
  ,
  • deactivate
  ,
  • deaden
  ,
  • debilitate
  ,
  • depress
  ,
  • discourage
  ,
  • dishearten
  ,
  • dissuade
  ,
  • dull
  ,
  • halt
  ,
  • sap
  ,
  • stop
  ,
  • tire
  ,
  • weaken
  ,
  • weary
  .
  • found
  • break
  ,
  • cease
  ,
  • complete
  ,
  • conclude
  ,
  • confuse
  ,
  • demolish
  ,
  • destroy
  ,
  • die
  ,
  • disestablish
  ,
  • disorder
  ,
  • disorganize
  ,
  • end
  ,
  • finish
  ,
  • ignore
  ,
  • neglect
  ,
  • raze
  ,
  • ruin
  ,
  • unsettle
  ,
  • upset
  .
  • ignite
  • cool
  ,
  • extinguish
  ,
  • put out
  ,
  • quench
  .
  • turn on
  • close
  ,
  • disenchant
  ,
  • disgust
  ,
  • displease
  ,
  • shut down
  ,
  • turn off
  .
  • vitalize
  • block
  ,
  • enervate
  ,
  • hurt
  .

• Other relevant words:

• arrive
,
• clear up
,
• give up
,
• stay
.

Famous quotes with Started up

• I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

  Daisy Berkowitz
• When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

  Luc Ferrari
• The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

  Jerry Pournelle
• As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

  Josh Schwartz
• When Mrs. Casaubon was announced he started up as from an electric shock, and felt a tingling at his fingerends. Any one observing him would have seen a change in his complexion, in the adjustment of his facial muscles, in the vividness of his glance, which might have made them imagine that every molecule in his body had passed the message of a magic touch. And so it had. For effective magic is transcendent nature; and who shall measure the subtlety of those touches which convey the quality of soul as well as body, and make a man’s passion for one woman differ from his passion for another as joy in the morning light over valley and river and white mountain-top differs from joy among Chinese lanterns and glass panels? Will, too, was made of very impressible stuff. The bow of a violin drawn near him cleverly, would at one stroke change the aspect of the world for him, and his point of view shifted— as easily as his mood. Dorothea’s entrance was the freshness of morning.

  George Eliot

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