to shut off
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2.6
- phrasal verb
- /ʃʌt ɔf/
:
apagar
- He decided to shut off the water supply while fixing the leaky pipe.
- shut off the water
- shut off the power
- shut off the light
They're just it's like OK, park your boat, shut off the light.
- They're just it's like OK, park your boat, shut off the light.
- You can shut off the provocateur's supply.
- OK, Ariel, my phone shut off, so I didn't I didn't see what I was doing.
- But then when we go into REM sleep, serotonin is shut off.
- And when I would drink, all that noise would shut off.
- OK, so he was like a Nobel laureate physicist, but like, cameras would shut off, things would fall over.
- If we simply shut off the distractions long enough, you will learn a lot.
- Let's talk for a second a bit more about why we stop, why we shut off effort when we get too hot.
- So your brain says this is too difficult, I am going to shut off the system to make reproductive hormones.
Examples
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Just shut off the engine.
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And that pump shut off and the heat transfer stopped.
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If not, you need to shut off the gas first thing you need to do.
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We have to shut off the power!
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What you do is you shut off the lights in your room at this time of day.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'm going to have to shut off my cell phone.
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I would like the electricity shut off at this residence.
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So with the pumps shut off, they had a strong increase in the drill pipe pressure.
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And rightly so, because the electric current had been shut off in Moses's house.
Fiction book (1990) -
The immigration quota system established in the 1920s effectively shut off European immigration, but did not apply to Mexico.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
631
1.3
To stop a machine or device from working with a switch
620
3.8
To stop something suddenly before it is finished
541
2.9
Stop a machine, business, or system from working
206
2.4
To stop moving or make something stop moving
87
5.5
To stop something from going on by removing support like money
63
3.9
To make a device, system, or account stop working
37
1.1
To stop a machine or light by using a control such as a button
37
1.0
To switch a light so it stops shining
36
2.7
To switch off a light or machine
6
6.4
To stop a supply by blocking its source or flow
4
5.8
To make something stop working
Antonyms
How Flowing
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to isolate or prevent connection' is directly derivable from combining 'shut' (to close) with 'off' (not operating / away), since together they signal closing or deactivating something so it no longer connects. This verb+particle composition is common in English and mirrored in many other languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would very likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Shut off comes from the simple image of closing something to stop it: you shut a door or close a valve off so water or gas cannot pass. That's why it now means 'to stop the flow or operation'.