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adjective

as in opposing

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verb

past tense of turn off
1
as in disgusted
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 deviated
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 removed
to let go from office, service, or employment eventually, the supervisor turned off the insubordinate employee

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

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Recent Examples of turned off
Verb
Watching together can create opportunities for conversation, questions and connection long after the screen is turned off. — Tara Duncan, AJC.com, 3 Aug. 2026 Windsor Mayor Nuchette Black-Burke said her town turned off its 16 license plate readers in February after a number of residents expressed concerns about the data sharing. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026 They should be turned off to eliminate any distraction from the instructor’s lesson. — Eric MacK, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026 Although parental controls may be turned off, one household rule remains firmly in place. — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 1 Aug. 2026 Longer Battery Life A full charge of the Impact 1000’s battery provides up to 55 hours of listening time with ANC turned off. — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026 Another features a claw-like attachment that stays locked in place even after the power is turned off. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 July 2026 But the fears of half-empty stadiums, of empty hotels, or visitors turned off by the high prices, never quite came to fruition. — Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 20 July 2026 Given the risks, some oil shippers are transiting the strait with their location devices turned off, but many are just staying put, Lloyd’s said Thursday. — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned off
  1. opposing
  2. disgusted
  3. deviated
  4. removed
  5. shut off
  6. opposed
  7. sickened
  8. turned
Adjective
  • Lundgren got out from the driver’s side of the vehicle, stumbled across the opposing lane of traffic, and leaped over the side of the bridge into Table Rock Lake below, the sheriff said.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 22 July 2026
  • Styles make fights Firstly, this will be a clash of two very opposing styles.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 19 July 2026
Definition of opposing
Verb
  • In 2017, the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine went to a team of French researchers who used advanced brain-scanning technology to measure the extent to which some people are disgusted by fromage.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2026
  • Kim The call left Kim Grindell disgusted, furious and wracked with guilt.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 20 June 2026
Definition of disgusted
Verb
  • The Costa Concordia allegedly deviated from its planned route around the Mediterranean Sea to do this.
    — Katie Mather, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
  • And yet at the start of the Mass, a priest read aloud a statement justifying the consecrations as a necessary defense of the faith and criticizing how the Catholic Church today had deviated from tradition.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
Definition of deviated
Verb
  • Riccio points out oftentimes the license plates to legal vehicles are removed or blocked, which keeps them from being traced on license plate readers.
    — Jermont Terry, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Many chefs pull salmon when the thermometer reads about 125 to 130 degrees for medium, knowing carryover cooking will continue after it’s removed from the grill.
    — Lynn Andriani, Martha Stewart, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of removed
Verb
  • There is a click at the end of pumping that signals the nozzle shutting off.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Look below the driver-side dashboard Park the vehicle and shut off the engine.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of shut off
Adjective
  • Some White House aides who focus on politics were strongly opposed, one of the sources said.
    — Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • Gallup found in a survey published in May that seven in 10 Americans oppose the construction of an AI data center in their local area, with 48% strongly opposed.
    — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 30 July 2026
Definition of opposed
Verb
  • More than 900 people in Washtenaw County, Michigan have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June.
    — Kate Wells, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026
  • This came with no evidence that his crops were infected with the parasite causing explosive diarrhea that has sickened thousands of people in nearly every state.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of sickened
Verb
  • For two decades she's turned the science of human behavior into practical tools that help people communicate with confidence.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Cyber incidents have turned loss-of-control language into operational risk.
    — Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
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“Turned off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20off. Accessed 4 Aug. 2026.

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