Synonyms for shut off
shut off

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1. shut off, close offverb

   stem the flow of

   "shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation"

   Synonyms:
   close off, block off

2. shut off, close offverb

   isolate or separate

   "She was shut off from the friends"

   Synonyms:
   close off, block off

3. shut off, block off, close offverb

   block off the passage through

   "We shut off the valve"

   Synonyms:
   stop, block, bar, barricade, block up, block off, blockade, close off

Matched Categories

1. • Block
   • Discontinue
   • Separate

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1. Erin Billings:

   We are in the peak of our thunderstorm season but as we progress into late July and August, we transition to more southwesterly flow which tends to shut off our thunderstorm season.

2. Alexandra Brodsky:

   After the last [stealthing] encounter, I just became emotionally shut off, at first I wanted to get pissed and scream at the person, but all that disappointment drains you … Now I just try to be way more careful.

3. Daniel Wroclawski:

   For a burst pipe or leak, the first thing you want to do is shut off the water, with your home, that is usually accessible. But if you're renting, it might not be, in which case you need to get a hold of your landlord or superintendent as quickly as you can.

4. Charles Cooley:

   One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

5. Joel Kan:

   Higher mortgage rates have quickly shut off refinances, with activity down in six of the first seven weeks of 2022, purchase applications, already constrained by elevated sales prices and tight inventory, have also been impacted by these higher rates and declined for the third straight week.