SHUTTING OFF Synonyms: 114 Similar and Opposite Words

shutting off

verb

present participle of shut off

as in ending

to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end threatened to shut off peace talks if the other side kept making unreasonable demands

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as in turning off

to cause to stop functioning shut off the computer to save electricity

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Recent Examples of shutting off Like clockwork, the City of Boston released its annual payroll just before shutting off the lights for the month. —

Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 28 Feb. 2026 If the patient moves, the system can react instantly, shutting off the beam to help prevent harm to healthy tissue, according to a press release. —

Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Feb. 2026 When the construction project starts next year, the road into the basin will be closed, shutting off access to the area. —

Liz Teitz, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2026 The plan discussed in committee would also create parameters for providers shutting off water service to residents. —

Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 29 Oct. 2025 At one point, customers heard a rumor that SDG&E was shutting off electricity to the building — an alarming development that would have left the business’s freezers without power. —

Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025 Audrey Hepburn plays a blind woman who manages to thwart intruders by shutting off all the lights in her apartment. —

Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2025 Like houses slowly shutting off their lights as a town falls into slumber, the brain gradually turns to night mode. —

Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025 Burton is one of over a dozen people who have been arrested on suspicion of helping the escapees, including another inmate in the jail and a jail maintenance worker who is accused of shutting off water to the toilet allowing escapees to remove it. —

Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025

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Talarico’s victory marks a preliminary triumph for Democrats who argued that the path to ending the party’s 32-year statewide losing streak runs through coalition-building.

— Nik Popli, Time, 4 Mar. 2026
With Monday evening performances canceled and piles of snow keeping pedestrians and drivers at bay, total grosses fell to $26,036,589 for the week ending March 1, down from $32M the previous week.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2026