shut off
[verb]
Synonyms: screen, block out, close, obstruct, shroud, shut out

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shut off phrasal verb (see also shut)

1. if a machine, tool etc shuts off or if you shut it off, it stops operating Synonym : turn off:
The iron shuts off automatically if it gets too hot.
shut something ↔ off
I let the engine run for a minute and then shut it off.
Don’t forget to shut off the water supply.

2. shut something ↔ off to prevent goods or supplies from being available or being delivered:
a strike that closed the mines and shut off coal supplies

3. shut yourself off to avoid meeting and talking to other people
shut yourself off from
He was cold and remote, shutting himself off from her completely.

4. be shut off from somebody/something to be separated from other people or things, especially so that you are not influenced by them:
The valley is shut off from the modern world.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

shut off
shut (someone/something) off
to separate someone or something from others.
A major interstate highway shuts the area off from the rest of the city.

When her husband died she shut herself off from everyone.

They just wanted to shut off all the people who had serious mental illnesses.

shut off (something)
to stop the operation of a machine or system.
Did you shut off the light in the bedroom?

To repair the leak they have to shut the water off in the entire building.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

shut off something
shut off (something)
to stop the operation of a machine or system.
Did you shut off the light in the bedroom?

To repair the leak they have to shut the water off in the entire building.

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shut something off
shut (someone/something) off
to separate someone or something from others.
A major interstate highway shuts the area off from the rest of the city.

When her husband died she shut herself off from everyone.

They just wanted to shut off all the people who had serious mental illnesses.

shut off (something)
to stop the operation of a machine or system.
Did you shut off the light in the bedroom?

To repair the leak they have to shut the water off in the entire building.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

shut off
1. • shut off
to be apart, to be separated from someone or something
The small town is shut off from the other small towns in the valley.

2. • shut (something) off
to make something like water or electricity stop
We always shut off the gas when we leave the house for more than a few minutes.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

shut something off
• shut (something) off
to make something like water or electricity stop
We always shut off the gas when we leave the house for more than a few minutes.

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shut off
v.
1. To make (something like water or electricity) stop coming.
Please shut off the hose before the grass gets too wet.
Compare: TURN OFF.
2. To be apart; be separated from; also to separate from.
Our camp is so far from the highway we feel shut off from the world when we are there.
The sow is so bad tempered we had to shut it off from its piglets.

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