Verb
cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
Source: WordNetWhen 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