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shut off
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb shut off has 3 senses
- shut off(v = verb.stative) close off - stem the flow of; "shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation" is one way to cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop
- shut off(v = verb.motion) close off - isolate or separate; "She was shut off from the friends" is one way to divide, separate
- shut off(v = verb.contact) block off, close off - block off the passage through; "We shut off the valve" is one way to bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop
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THESAURUS
shut off
abrupt, alienate, alienated, apart, bar, barricade, block, block out, block up, blockade, bolt, cast off, cast out, chock, choke, choke off, close, close off, close tight, close up, constrict, crowd, cut, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, debar, delete, depart, detached, disarticulate, disarticulated, disconnect, disconnected, disengage, disengaged, disjoin, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, dissociate, disunite, disunited, divide, divided, divorce, divorced, dog, eject, estrange, estranged, expel, in a backwater, insular, isolate, isolated, jam, kill, leave, lock, obstruct, occlude, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, pack, part, pull away, pull back, pull out, quarantined, remote, removed, retired, scattered, secluded, segregate, segregated, separate, separated, sequester, sequestered, set apart, set aside, shroud, shut, shut down, shut out, shut tight, split, squeeze, squeeze shut, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, stifle, stop up, strangle, strangulate, subtract, suffocate, switch off, throw off, throw out, turn off, uncouple, unfrequented, unvisited, unyoke, withdraw, withdrawn
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