shut off

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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

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

shut off(v = verb.motion) close off - isolate or separate; "She was shut off from the friends"

is one way to divide, separate

Sample sentences:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

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

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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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subtract, suffocate, switch off, throw off, throw out, turn off, uncouple, unfrequented, unvisited, unyoke, withdraw, withdrawn