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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How to use shut off in a sentence?

1. Alexandra Brodsky:

   After the last [stealthing] encounter, I just became emotionally shut off, at first I wanted to get pissed and scream at the person, but all that disappointment drains you … Now I just try to be way more careful.

2. Mike Pompeo:

   The river is at its lowest levels in a decade, a problem linked to China's decision to shut off water upstream.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   What the DNC did, arbitrarily, without discussing it with us, is shut off our access to our information, crippling our campaign.

4. China News:

   In the preliminary investigation, the co-pilot was found to be smoking an e-cigarette, smoke diffused into the passenger cabin and relevant air conditioning components were wrongly shut off, without notifying the captain, which resulted in insufficient oxygen.

5. Nathan Apodaca:

   My car shuts off from time to time, and it shut off down the highway... I didn't want to wait to flag someone down to get a jump. So I grabbed my juice and grabbed my board.