VERB
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cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
turn out the lights
Turn off the stereo, please
cut the engine
How To Use switch off In A Sentence
- An official decision by the authorities to switch off electricity to student dormitories at 11 p.m. led to unrest on campus.
- In some cases, the method will be used to switch off rogue genes that promote conditions such as heart failure or cancer. Times, Sunday Times
- He liked a lot of new music but as soon as he heard a piece of old-fashioned opera or symphonic music he would switch off. Times, Sunday Times
- He and his wife took the painful decision to switch off their son's life support machine.
- If the thyristor is used with an ac supply then it will conduct on the positive half cycles and automatically switch off during the negative half cycles.
- White turned the light switch off, there was a severe electrical arc from the conduit, immediately followed by sparks and flames.
- Her drunken antics this week almost made me switch off. The Sun
- Don't switch off yet.
- What a relief --- to just switch off brains that had been taught to negotiate the marshland of divorce, remarriage and blended families. MAN AND WIFE
- Electrical sockets that you can switch off properly by remote control. Times, Sunday Times
