turn off 1 of 2

verb

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1
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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2
as in to deviate
to change one's course or direction turn off at the third exit and follow the ramp to your left

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3
as in to sack
to let go from office, service, or employment eventually, the supervisor turned off the insubordinate employee

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4
as in to shut off
to cause to stop functioning please turn off the fan when you're done

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turnoff

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noun

as in slope

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Recent Examples of turn off
Verb
With the fan and light turned off, check for loose globes, shades, bulbs, finials, or other decorative pieces. — Tricia Goss, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2026 Madonna won the crowd over, but eventually, many were turned off by her chaotic acceptance speeches. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 28 Sep. 2026
Noun
But establishment support has been a turnoff for some voters. — Jonathan J. Cooper, Fortune, 23 July 2026 Along a sliver of land between Crystal Lake and Lake Michigan, take the turnoff to Point Betsie Lighthouse. — Stacy Conde, Midwest Living, 9 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for turn off
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turn off
  1. disgust
  2. deviate
  3. sack
  4. shut off
  5. slope
  6. repulse
  7. turn
  8. remove
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  • That is, Lamashtu spoke out about something that angered and disgusted the divine patriarch, and she was cast down to earth.
    — Eleanor Johnson, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Harrity, who is open about his own recovery, is troubled and disgusted by police believing Horsch preyed on women struggling with addiction.
    — Joe Holden, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of disgust
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  • The complication shows the moon phases for both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, with a 135-tooth driving wheel that drastically enhances accuracy, deviating by just one day every 122 years.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Her position deviates from her religion as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which publicly opposes the ballot measure.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of deviate
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  • Minnesota sacked Williams seven times and held the Huskies to 1-for-10 on third down.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Dak gets sacked on the latter, and Dallas has to settle for three.
    — Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of sack
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  • For now, the company is limited to just 15 minutes of operation in space before the chips have to be shut off to cool back down.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Epigenetic control — the means by which an organism can dial the expression of its genetic repertoire up or down, or shut off the expression of some genes entirely — may have evolved first to bring transposons to heel.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of shut off
Noun
  • On a hot Saturday, Pawlikowski and I revisited those heights—the slopes from which, for almost four years, starting in the spring of 1992, Serbian artillery pounded Sarajevo, which lies vulnerably cupped in the valley below.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The rainwater hit bedrock and raced down steep mountain slopes like water on a slide.
    — Ren Larson, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2026
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  • Young people just aren’t interested, partly because they’re repulsed by bodily fluids.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
  • His recent comments didn’t favor the Browns fanbase, and many Cleveland fans seem viscerally repulsed by him.
    — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of repulse
Verb
  • Democratic strategist Jay Satterfield said the goal is not to turn rural Virginia blue.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Today, about six decades after being turned into a hotel, the property is owned by the same group that owns The Witchery at the Castle—an explanation, perhaps, for its signature theatrical flavor.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of turn
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  • Doctors also discovered, and removed, excess tissue in her uterus called a uterine septum.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Kehinde Wiley has offered to buy back his painting that was removed from the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic, reports the New York Times.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
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