switch off

Verb

Meaning

cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

turn off cut power down close turn turn-out stop kill killing cutting shut halt exclude disconnected disable
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Antonyms

switch on touch off pick up the phone answer the call put into operation pick up the telephone
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Hypernyms

switch throw flip

Hyponyms

kill

Examples

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. Christopher Hitchens

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day. Jimmy Nail

People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax. Will Carling

You would have to sit at the board and sweat and feel the fear of defeat or the nearness of victory to understand what goes through a player's head ... If you think it's that easy, switch off the computer and try and figure out a few moves on your own. Viswanathan Anand

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did. Sophie Kinsella

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off. Dennis Bergkamp

Close letter words and terms

switch keeper switch key switch knife switch on switch on the afterburners switch out