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Shut Off

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Verb

1. close off, shut off

stem the flow of

Example Sentences:
'shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation'

2. close off, shut off

isolate or separate

Example Sentences:
'She was shut off from the friends'

3. block off, close off, shut off

block off the passage through

Example Sentences:
'We shut off the valve'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Shut Off

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noun
1. 
a device that shuts something off, esp a machine control
2. 
a stoppage or cessation
verb shut off (tr, adverb)
3. 
to stem the flow of
4. 
to block off the passage through
5. 
to isolate or separate

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Shut Off

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1. 
to prevent the passage of (electricity, steam, etc.)
2. 
to prevent passage through (a road, faucet, etc.)
3. 
to separate; isolate
noun
1. 
something that shuts off a flow or movement, as a valve
2. 
a stoppage or interruption

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Shut Off

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n.
1. A device that shuts something off.
2. A stoppage; a cessation.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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