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as in to disgust
to cause to feel disgust
that memorably bad meal turned me off about restaurant food for a while
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as in to sack
to let go from office, service, or employment
eventually, the supervisor turned off the insubordinate employee
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as in to shut off
to cause to stop functioning
please turn off the fan when you're done
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Recent Examples of turn off
Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2025
The deal exploded in popularity last year when Chili’s took aim at customers of its fast food rivals (notably McDonald’s) who might be turned off by their rising prices.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2025
Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 12 Mar. 2024
For many years these associations were a turnoff and in the consumer’s mind, created a glass ceiling through which the Crus rarely penetrated.
—Paul Caputo, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Verb
The train’s power was turned off for nearly two hours until just before 5 a.m. while awaiting the arrival of the medical examiner to remove the man’s body.
—Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2025
The deal exploded in popularity last year when Chili’s took aim at customers of its fast food rivals (notably McDonald’s) who might be turned off by their rising prices.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
Ubisoft estimated that the server turnoff would only be 60 minutes, according to an X post.
—Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 12 Mar. 2024
For many years these associations were a turnoff and in the consumer’s mind, created a glass ceiling through which the Crus rarely penetrated.
—Paul Caputo, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for turn off
Verb
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All of them disgust me to be quite honest with you. KARL: All right.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2025
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Vara, like many of her readers, is both enchanted by the web and disgusted with the companies that control it.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The main function of the yeast deviated from producing good beer to simply being able to survive for an extraordinarily long period of time without its primary food source: barley sugar.—
Gary Stoller,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Even Porziņģis missing time throughout the playoffs didn’t force the Celtics to deviate much from their plan.—
Jay King,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The city was sacked again — this time by the Turks — and incorporated into the Ottoman Empire.—
Danuta Hamlin,
FOXNews.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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At the crossroads of Roman roads in ancient Gaul, Cassel was sacked by the Vikings in the late 9th century, and later became a 17th-century war prize fought over by France and Spain.—
Mary Winston Nicklin,
AFAR Media,
7 Apr. 2025
Verb
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All power has been shut off in the area, along with the gas valves on either side of the broken gas line, Hopkins said.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
23 Apr. 2025
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But now that Trump is shutting off funding, or at least threatening to, at sixty schools, Harvard’s endowment has taken on a new purpose, positioning the school to be the first bulwark against a rapidly advancing front.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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But McIlroy, with ice in his own veins, bombed his drive and put his approach within two feet after spinning it off the slope behind the hole.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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The proverbial slope from seemingly reasonable uses of these technologies to unconstitutional and unjustifiably speech-suppressive uses is very slippery.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Still, assuming that Harvard goes ahead with a legal battle to repulse the Administration’s assault, its actions could have important ramifications not just for other universities but also for broader efforts to resist Trump’s encroachments.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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After a disastrous trip to Mexico where Irina appeared repulsed by everything Zack did, the couple split and Zack went crawling back to Bliss.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
1 Feb. 2025
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What was supposed to be a revenge tour has turned into a stumble out of the gate.—
Brian Sampson,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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When efforts to repurpose it as a museum or hotel didn’t materialize, Okaloosa County officials stepped in with a forward-thinking plan: turn the SS United States into a reef teeming with life, a win-win boon to the marine environment and to eco-tourism.—
Skye Sherman,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Apr. 2025
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He's promised to remove taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security, and continue tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthy, passed during his first term.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2025
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But DeShields has struggled to find consistent minutes since undergoing spinal surgery to remove a tumor in 2019, then suffering a knee injury that sidelined her for the entire 2023 season.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Turn off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turn%20off. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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