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description: Kill (abruptly force stop) a machine.
keywords:
- machine, kill, subcommand
menu:
  main:
    identifier: machine.kill
    parent: smn_machine_subcmds
title: kill
---

# kill

    Usage: docker-machine kill [arg...]

    Kill (abruptly force stop) a machine

    Description:
       Argument(s) are one or more machine names.

For example:

    $ docker-machine ls
    NAME   ACTIVE   DRIVER       STATE     URL
    dev    *        virtualbox   Running   tcp://192.168.99.104:2376
    $ docker-machine kill dev
    $ docker-machine ls
    NAME   ACTIVE   DRIVER       STATE     URL
    dev    *        virtualbox   Stopped