Synonyms for shut off
shut off

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1. shut off, close offverb

   stem the flow of

   "shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation"

   Synonyms:
   close off, block off

2. shut off, close offverb

   isolate or separate

   "She was shut off from the friends"

   Synonyms:
   close off, block off

3. shut off, block off, close offverb

   block off the passage through

   "We shut off the valve"

   Synonyms:
   stop, block, bar, barricade, block up, block off, blockade, close off

Matched Categories

1. • Block
   • Discontinue
   • Separate

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1. Read MoreThe gold medalist:

   It was one of the few times in Simone Biles life where everything was just shut off and Simone Biles couldn't do anything, so we used it to get to know each other — really get to know each other. It created our bond and made it stronger. Now I'm so thankful.

2. Kim Dong-yub:

   Until these trade routes are shut off, the structure there makes it too difficult for sanctions to effectively kick in.

3. Charles Cooley:

   One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

4. Corey Monteith mother:

   I just shut off all emotions, and I was numb.

5. President Barack Obama:

   This whole system that we built is not based on trust, it's based on a verifiable mechanism whereby every pathway that they have is shut off.