Synonyms for switch off
switch off

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1. switch offverb

   Synonyms:
   turn off

   Antonyms:
   switch on

2. switch offverb

   to turn a switch to the off position in order to stop or disable a device

   Synonyms:
   turn off

   Antonyms:
   switch on

3. switch offverb

   to lose interest, and start thinking about something else

   Synonyms:
   turn off

   Antonyms:
   switch on

4. switch offverb

   To alternate between; to trade.

   Do you eat all your peas and then all your potatoes, or do you switch off between them as you go?

   Synonyms:
   turn off

   Antonyms:
   switch on

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1. switch off, cut, turn off, turn outverb

   cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch

   "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights"

   Synonyms:
   get up, foreshorten, veer, rise, come out, bring down, rotate, snub, turn off, burn, rationalize, boot out, hack, trim down, uprise, write out, prune, thin, turf out, cut, turn up, slue, trim back, trim, ignore, swerve, shorten, arise, edit out, edit, thin out, cut down, skip, abridge, reduce, make out, spread out, contract, rationalise, cut off, dilute, curve, put off, sheer, slew, geld, chuck out, prove, tailor, turn out, splay, disregard, issue, exclude, cut back, eject, abbreviate, trend, bear

   Antonyms:
   switch on, turn on

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1. Rachel Needle:

   Perhaps you can do a date night trade where you find another family with children, and you can switch off one day each week ; you can have consistent time together, or plan something for when the children are going to bed or a date day or few hours and take off a day at work or leave a few hours early if that's possible.

2. Tao Geoghegan:

   At the moment, I do n’t think I ’d say I ’m looking forward to Wednesday but it’s another chance, i just want to forget about everything tonight, switch off, have dinner and ring Max, my son. That puts it all in perspective. I ’ll get up tomorrow, recover as best I can and give it one last hit.

3. Tomas Berdych:

   I can talk with my partner about basically everything.... I can just completely switch off from the tennis, then once you step back on the tennis side, then you are absolutely focused (on) whatever you do... so for me, I think it's a great combination.

4. Anthony Fauci:

   It's not going to be turning a switch off and turning the switch on, it's going to be gradual and I think it's going to take several months before we get to the point where we can really feel something that approximates how it was normally before Covid-19.

5. Amit Sen:

   Sometimes, the parents switch off the internet or disconnect the Wi-Fi, and there is a violent reaction, all hell breaks loose.