TURN OFF Synonyms: 180 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

Definition of turn off

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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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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as in to sack

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

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as in to shut off

to cause to stop functioning please turn off the fan when you're done

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Verb

Abu Dhabi has sent tankers through the strait with their transponders turned off to evade Iranian surveillance, and used a pipeline to Fujairah that bypasses the chokepoint. — Dominic Dudley, semafor.com, 1 July 2026 State prosecutors said Peters and a deputy clerk in 2021 conspired to turn off security cameras in the room where Mesa County's voting machines were stored and improperly granted access to an outside activist by stealing someone else’s identity. — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 30 June 2026

Noun

That was a bit of a turnoff for this old traditionalist, who thinks politics has gotten too coarse and foul-mouthed. — George Skelton, Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2026 Management consulting has since suffered in reputation, especially among progressives, who view Buttigieg’s lubrication of the mechanisms of global capital as a major turnoff. — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for turn off

Recent Examples of Synonyms for turn off

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Kim The call left Kim Grindell disgusted, furious and wracked with guilt.

— Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 20 June 2026
Many of the crew members are disgusted by Vito's homosexuality, but Phil seems to take special exception to this revelation, going out of his way to demand Tony take him out and becoming violently angered even at the mere mention of Vito's name.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026

Definition of disgust

Verb

An alternative is walking that fine line and deviating from the source material in ways which justify the switch to live action filming.

— Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
The May through July numbers are expected to be the highest of the year, according to the Global Port Tracker, deviating from the traditional peak shipping season that historically lasted from August to October.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 9 July 2026

Definition of deviate

Verb

The Hightowers, Rhaenyra soon learns, have sacked the town of Tumbleton, a thriving city on the border of the Crownlands and the Reach.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
That came in the spring of 2025, about 11 months after his dad had been sacked as coach, when Pochettino, the new manager, gave the younger Berhalter his first national team call-up.

— Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026

Definition of sack

Noun

Several hours later, rescuers carried the injured on stretchers and recovered the dead in makeshift carts, painstakingly hauling them back up the rugged slope, official Noor Zaman said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
This hard-working plant tolerates heat, drought, salt, and humidity, and provides good soil stabilization on slopes.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 July 2026

Definition of slope

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Plenty of people bought it, plenty were repulsed by it.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 11 June 2026
Spearmint and peppermint plants are particularly effective insect repellents, but many other plants in the mint family can also be used to repulse flies, including pennyroyal and lemon balm.

— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2026

Definition of repulse

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Following the 2008 housing meltdown, private equity firms such as Blackstone bought thousands of single-family homes at bargain prices and turned them into rentals.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
The TikTok edits, the outfit identification threads, the contestant rivalries trending on X by the end of an episode, all of it turns 60 minutes of passive viewing into a multi-platform conversation that runs all week.

— Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026

Definition of turn

Verb

The directives also require the companies to remove, within 45 days, the millions of pounds of rotting food inside the warehouse.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
To manage operational heat, the hardware uses a thermal strategy that entirely removes mechanical components like fans or liquid pumps.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026

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