switch off

phrasal 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

EVs can therefore serve as a highly flexible source of electricity demand during heatwaves, when consumers are less likely to want to switch off their air conditioning in response to alerts from their local utility. 2. —Joseph Vellone, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025

Though all six of the Apollo landing missions left behind instrument packages that included seismographs, these were of very limited capability and all were switched off in 1977 as their nuclear power sources began to fail. —David Szondy august 09, New Atlas, 9 Aug. 2025

The power light switches off once the mini doughnuts have finished cooking. —Bestreviews, Mercury News, 30 July 2025

All students in grades K-12 are now allowed to have personal cell phones in school throughout the day as long as the devices are switched off. —Gabrielle Chenault, The Tennessean, 13 July 2025

Rhymes for switch off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff