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as in to disgust
to cause to feel disgust
that memorably bad meal turned me off about restaurant food for a while
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as in to sack
to let go from office, service, or employment
eventually, the supervisor turned off the insubordinate employee
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as in to shut off
to cause to stop functioning
please turn off the fan when you're done
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Recent Examples of turn off
Marc Freeman, Air Mail, 5 Apr. 2025
If it had been ruled Denver’s ball, the Nuggets would have had possession in a tie game with the shot clock turned off.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2025
Paul Caputo, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Her study showed that executions and other violent content actually represented a turnoff for most followers of Twitter accounts associated with Islamic State, although not for the most fanatical followers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2019
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Verb
According to series writer Robert Lipsyte, Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell was so unbearable that viewers not only turned off their own televisions but went next door to switch off their neighbors’ too.
—Marc Freeman, Air Mail, 5 Apr. 2025
If it had been ruled Denver’s ball, the Nuggets would have had possession in a tie game with the shot clock turned off.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
For many years these associations were a turnoff and in the consumer’s mind, created a glass ceiling through which the Crus rarely penetrated.
—Paul Caputo, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Her study showed that executions and other violent content actually represented a turnoff for most followers of Twitter accounts associated with Islamic State, although not for the most fanatical followers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for turn off
Verb
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Vara, like many of her readers, is both enchanted by the web and disgusted with the companies that control it.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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The judge, though disgusted at her antics, still stands firm in his decision to give the prosecution access to those records because the reports about the divorce are still accessible to the jury.—
Ayan Artan,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2025
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Even Senior Advisor to the President, Elon Musk has expressed sentiments on free trade (with Europe) that deviate from the direction of the administration.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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Author and showrunner Jenny Han teases that season 3 will deviate from the storyline in her book series.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
6 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Also sacked Thursday was Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, who led both the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, and his deputy, Wendy Noble, who has reportedly been reassigned within the Pentagon.—
Colin Meyn,
The Hill,
4 Apr. 2025
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He was sacked a whopping 68 times, with the next highest being C.J. Stroud with 52.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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Many projects that had received small amounts of funding to start construction planning suddenly had that funding shut off.—
Ella Nilsen,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2025
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The survey was conducted at the end of March, after the contentious Oval Office meeting between Trump and Zelensky, which resulted in a temporary shut off of U.S. military aid and intelligence sharing, critical assistance in Kyiv’s defense against Russia.—
Laura Kelly,
The Hill,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In a video shared on the official Audi FIS World Cup Instagram, Vonn is seen pumping her fists in the air and cheering along with the crowd in celebration after completing her race at the bottom of the slopes in Sun Valley.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
24 Mar. 2025
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Even better: add a few days to your itinerary for visiting a wine region, like Lavaux, which has spectacular terraced slopes overlooking Lake Geneva.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
21 Mar. 2025
Verb
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As Saxon and Lochlan try to decipher what happened between them, we are asked to think about why we’re aroused (or repulsed) by it.—
Louis Staples,
Rolling Stone,
24 Mar. 2025
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Even as the Russians massed forces and achieved a three-to-one advantage in troops in Kursk late last year, the Ukrainians held on—deploying mines, drones and artillery to repeatedly repulse Russian mechanized assaults.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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But the moment of flexing soon turned into a public apology and her taking accountability for the effect of the song.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Lisa Rinna turned Wednesday’s H&M & LA event in Los Angeles into a family affair, attending the event alongside her daughters Delilah Belle and Amelia Gray Hamlin.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
10 Apr. 2025
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Quantum internet removes that risk by ensuring only the sender and receiver can read a message, so not even the hosting platform can access it.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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The walls were blank; administrators had recently removed art work depicting eight female activists, including Angela Davis, the Marxist prison abolitionist, and Grace Lee Boggs, the Asian American Black Power activist.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Turn off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turn%20off. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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