switch off

verb

switched off; switching off; switches off

1

: to turn off (something) by turning or pushing a button or moving a switch, lever, etc.

He switched off the light/lamp.

He switched the TV off.

2

informal : to stop paying attention

When the topic turned to the stock market, he switched off.

Examples of switch off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Fifteen years after owners switched off the rides for the last time, an eerie and rusted amusement park happily in decay in Seoul's outskirts has become one of the city's coolest attractions. — New Atlas, 18 Aug. 2026

The other four switched off their tracking transponders to avoid detection so their route is unknown. — Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026

Several airports including in Paris and Amsterdam have temporarily switched off biometric collection and resorted to manual processing as a result of queues. — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 12 Aug. 2026

To gauge raw ability, OpenAI switched off the safety filters that normally stop a model from doing this. — Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for switch off

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