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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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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Recent Examples of turnoff
Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 9 July 2025
The job’s exposure to human waste, dangerous chemicals, and cramped conditions is a major turnoff, for many people.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
While Dorothy is flattered by the attention from a successful writer, her roommates, Blanche Devereaux (Rue McLanahan) and Rose Nylund (Betty White), are turned off by Barbara's arrogance and superficiality.
—Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Verb
The rigidity of the 75 Hard challenge is a turnoff for some people and has paved the way for a less strict version of the program to emerge.
—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 9 July 2025
The job’s exposure to human waste, dangerous chemicals, and cramped conditions is a major turnoff, for many people.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Noun
Note: This will turn off Gemini summaries as well as other smart features.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
While Dorothy is flattered by the attention from a successful writer, her roommates, Blanche Devereaux (Rue McLanahan) and Rose Nylund (Betty White), are turned off by Barbara's arrogance and superficiality.
—Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for turnoff
Verb
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Locals were disgusted with city leadership’s inept handling of the crisis.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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The young writer, disgusted by the condition of his own sheets, placed the relatively clean linen on his bed.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
Verb
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Meanwhile, the researchers thought the Neanderthals deviated away from our evolutionary line about 1.38 million years ago.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Aug. 2025
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Which is why Mahomes played all of 48 seconds in the first two irrelevant games as Reid deviated from his customary inclination to play him most in the second-to-last rehearsal.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
23 Aug. 2025
Verb
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While those numbers were solid, he was also sacked 68 times, due much in part to the 23-year-old holding on to the football for too long.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Aug. 2025
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Hopper later sacked Milroe for a 3-yard loss on a fourth-and-2.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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Maier, 62, died due to probable malnutrition and dehydration on Feb. 22, 2024, one week after prison staff began intermittently shutting off the water to prevent him from flooding his cell.—
Vanessa Swales,
jsonline.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Add a smart timer or meter to your outdoor spigot to shut off water flow to hoses and sprinklers.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Use it as a ground cover along walkways, to stabilize soil on sunny banks or slopes, or to edge patios.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
19 Aug. 2025
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Then, one by one, the elephants climbed uphill and headed into the bamboo thicket on the other side of the slope.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Aug. 2025
Verb
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These schemes produced hair collections that survive today, no doubt bewildering (and possibly repulsing) generations of archivists.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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Like Einstein, Brassard feels repulsed by the way the particles in the Bell experiment seem to have firsthand awareness of each other despite being separated by, in principle, light-years of space.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Aug. 2025
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National Park Service officials say there was no way to predict the Dragon Bravo Fire would turn into an inferno, jump containment lines and rip through the Grand Canyon's North Rim, leaving a historic lodge and 100 other structures in smoking ruin.—
DAILY BRIEFING,
AZCentral.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Despite her signature humor, Dunst's Town & Country also turned heartfelt.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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Liam and Noel Gallagher, 16 years removed from what was ostensibly the final Oasis gig (following a scuffle between the two Mancunians backstage at a festival in England), have defied the oddsmakers.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 2025
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One of the men on board, 41-year old Miles Connors, is a citizen who has been ordered removed from the U.S. twice since 2008 after several interactions with immigration officials at airports and other points of entries throughout the country going back to 2006, his complaint states.—
David Goodhue
August 25,
Miami Herald,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Turnoff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turnoff. Accessed 2 Sep. 2025.
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