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[ verb ] cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch

Synonyms

turn_off turn_out cut

Examples

"Turn off the stereo, please" "cut the engine" "turn out the lights"

Used in print

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

Mark stopped the car and switched_off the lights and they sat looking_at the water , which , there being no moon out , at_first could be distinguished from the sky only by an absence of stars .

Related terms

switch_on throw kill

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