Synonyms for shut off

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1. shut off, close off(verb)

   stem the flow of

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

   Synonyms:
   close off, block off

2. shut off, close off(verb)

   isolate or separate

   "She was shut off from the friends"

   Synonyms:
   close off, block off

3. shut off, block off, close off(verb)

   block off the passage through

   "We shut off the valve"

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

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Australian

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Indian

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How to use shut off in a sentence?

1. Mike Pompeo:

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

2. Hurricane MariaBut:

   Americans are the true first responders, we've gotta get back to the basics, and teach people tangible skills, not only how to do CPR and first aid but to shut off your house gas lines or water lines after a disaster. We've gotta get people to save money. They need their own rainy day account.

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. John Jay Chapman:

   Try to raise a voice that shall be heard from here to Albany and watch what it is that comes forward to shut off the sound. It is not a German sergeant, nor a Russian officer of the precinct. It is a note from a friend of your fathers offering you a place in his office. This is your warning from the secret police. Why, if any of you young gentlemen have a mind to get heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputation, and a close enemy of most men who wish you well. And what will you get in return? Well, if I must for the benefit of the economists, charge you up with some selfish gain, I will say that you get the satisfaction of having been heard, and that this is the whole possible scope of human ambition.

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.

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