Decommission
(verb)
- To officially retire or withdraw something from use or service.
- To dismantle or make safe something, especially a nuclear facility.
Origin:
From de- + commission, from the latin word commissionem, the noun of committere to commit.
Examples:
- The government decided to decommission the old power plant.
- The ship was decommissioned after 30 years of service.
- The army decommissioned the outdated weapon system.
- The nuclear power plant is in the process of being decommissioned.
- After the war, the weapons were decommissioned and destroyed.