1
as in to postpone
to assign to a later time
never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
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2
as in to remove
to rid oneself of (a garment)
put off your coat and stay awhile
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3
as in to disgust
to cause to feel disgust
she was put off by his blatantly sexist attitude
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Recent Examples of put off
Rich Wilken, 78, put off retirement as an architect after losing his Pacific Palisades home of 47 years, and agreed to design 10 new houses in the burn area for himself and friends.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
While automakers are putting off and/or cancelling vehicles that only run on electrons, given high development costs and a weak market, Subaru is confident in the direction it is headed.
—Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Equipment upgrades are put off.
—Jim Vinoski, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Similarly, white Americans are nearly four times as likely to skip or delay vaccinating their children compared to Asian Americans, with 19 percent and 5 percent, respectively, forgoing or putting off inoculating their kids, according to the poll.
—Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
While automakers are putting off and/or cancelling vehicles that only run on electrons, given high development costs and a weak market, Subaru is confident in the direction it is headed.
—Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Equipment upgrades are put off.
—Jim Vinoski, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Similarly, white Americans are nearly four times as likely to skip or delay vaccinating their children compared to Asian Americans, with 19 percent and 5 percent, respectively, forgoing or putting off inoculating their kids, according to the poll.
—Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for put off
Verb
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His arraignment in Sacramento Superior Court has been postponed twice, since the defendant remains under a federal hold.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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Federal tax due dates are established by law, meaning they cannot be postponed just because Congress has not passed a budget, according to the IRS agency contingency plan.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Oct. 2025
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Israel is expected to keep some troops in Gaza for now, but would eventually remove them as the ceasefire solidifies and peace takes hold.—
Greg Myre,
NPR,
9 Oct. 2025
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Bieber ended the Instagram carousel with a post of her once again in bed, this time removing a pair of the peptide eye prep patches.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
8 Oct. 2025
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Christine assures him that she could never be disgusted with him.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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Calling the mass killing of civilians in Gaza a genocide is contentious as well, but even patriotic Israelis disgusted by their own government have begun to use the term.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Persons should delay all travel if possible.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
12 Oct. 2025
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Should your flight get delayed or canceled, whether through staffing shortages, a technical meltdown or extreme weather (a nor’easter is expected on the East Coast this weekend), CNN Travel has some advice on what to do next.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
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After a disastrous trip to Mexico where Irina appeared repulsed by pretty much everything Zack did, the couple split and Zack crawled back to Bliss.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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He was repulsed then, but years later, thinking about a man who’d expressed an interest in the human body in the most macabre possible way sparked something in Hunnam.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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Packaging Corporation of America is closing a Charlotte-area manufacturing plant, putting over 100 out of work by the end of the year.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Oct. 2025
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The federal government shut down Wednesday after funding laws expired, putting over 750,000 federal employees on furlough and leaving others working without pay.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
3 Oct. 2025
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The 15-state outbreak has sickened at least 20, killing four, since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the FDA began investigating cases of listeria poisoning, or listeriosis, in September.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
7 Oct. 2025
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The 15-state outbreak has sickened at least 20, killing four, since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the FDA began investigating cases of listeria poisoning, or listeriosis, in September.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
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After high school, Neutra deferred his college studies to spend a gap year in Israel.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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The White House deferred the Washington Examiner to the Department of Education, and the Washington Examiner contacted the Department of Education for comment.—
Sydney Topf,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Oct. 2025
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