turn off

See also: turnoff, and turn-off

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

turn off (third-person singular simple present turns off, present participle turning off, simple past and past participle turned off)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dismiss; to fire.
   • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 273:

     [H]e came to this country in the service of an English gentleman, whom he was obliged to quit through the malice of the valet de chambre, who taking advantage of the young man's being overtaken with liquor on the last St.Andrew's day, turned him off, on the pretext of his being an habitual drunkard.

2. (transitive) To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).

   Turn off the machine and unplug it when you leave.

   • 1989, “Ice Ice Baby”, in Hooked, performed by Vanilla Ice:

     "Will it ever stop?" Yo, I don't know / Turn off the lights, and I'll glow

   • 2006 February 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 1, episode 4:

     Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Ok. Well, are you sure that it's plugged in?

3. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To become deactivated; to become powered down.

   My computer turned off!

4. (transitive) To rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas.

   Remember to turn the tap off once you've finished so you don't waste water.

5. (transitive) To repulse, disgust, or discourage (someone).

   Cigarette smoking really turns me off.

   • 1986, “Nasty”, in Control, performed by Janet Jackson:

     Better be a gentleman, or you'll turn me off

   • 2021 December 29, Paul Clifton, “"Crisis" on the West of England line”, in RAIL, number 947, page 35:

     "They are turning people off travelling. And the removal of catering on such a long-distance route is just bonkers."

6. (intransitive) To leave a road; to exit.

   Turn off at the next exit so we can have lunch.

Synonyms

• (put out of operation): shut off, switch off, shut down, cut off, cut, deactivate, disable
• (interrupt flow of liquid or gas by rotating a valve): shut off

Antonyms

• turn on

Coordinate terms

• (put out of operation): keep on (transitive), leave on (transitive)

Derived terms

• turn-off (noun)
• turnoff (noun)

 

Translations

switch off appliance or light

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: طفّى (ṭaffa)

• Armenian: անջատել (hy) (anǰatel)
• Aromanian: astingu
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܟ̰ܡܸܥ (māčmiʿ)
• Belarusian: выключа́ць impf (vyključácʹ), вы́ключыць pf (výključycʹ)
• Burmese: မှိတ် (my) (hmit)
• Catalan: apagar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎬᏓᎵᏗᎠ (gvdalidia)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 關／关 (yue) (gwaan¹)

  Mandarin: 關／关 (zh) (guān), 關掉／关掉 (zh) (guāndiào)

• Czech: vypnout (cs)
• Danish: slukke (da)
• Dutch: uitzetten (nl), uitschakelen (nl) (switch off device or appliance), uitdoen (nl) (light)
• Esperanto: elŝalti, malvalidigi
• Estonian: kustutama
• Finnish: sulkea (fi), laittaa pois päältä, sammuttaa (fi)
• French: éteindre (fr)
• Friulian: distudâ
• Gallo: tuer (light)
• Georgian: გამორთვა (gamortva), გამოთიშვა (gamotišva), გამორთავს (gamortavs), გათიშავს (gatišavs), თიშავს (tišavs)
• German: ausschalten (de), abschalten (de) (switch off device, appliance or light); abstellen (de) (device or appliance); ausmachen (de) (light)
• Greek: κλείνω (el) (kleíno), σβήνω (el) (svíno), απενεργοποιώ (el) (apenergopoió)
• Hebrew: כיבה / כִּבָּה (kibá)
• Hindi: बंद करना (band karnā)
• Hungarian: kikapcsol (hu) (device or appliance), lekapcsol (hu) (light)
• Irish: cas as, múch
• Italian: spegnere (it)
• Japanese: 消す (ja) (けす, kesu), 切る (ja) (きる, kiru), オフする (ja) (ofu suru)
• Javanese: ꦩꦠꦼꦤꦶ (mateni)
• Khmer: បិទ (km) (bət)
• Korean: 끄다 (ko) (kkeuda), 턴오프하다 (teonopeuhada)
• Lao: ປິດ (pit)
• Latvian: izslēgt
• Lithuanian: išjungti
• Macedonian: исклу́чува impf (isklúčuva), га́си impf (gási), изга́сува (izgásuva)
• Maltese: tefa
• Nepali: बन्द गर्नु (banda garnu)
• Ngazidja Comorian: uzima
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slå av, få av (informal)

• Occitan: atudar (oc), esténher (oc), esténger
• Polish: wyłączać (pl) impf, wyłączyć (pl) pf (device, appliance, light); gasić (pl) impf, zgasić (pl) pf (light)
• Portuguese: desligar (pt), apagar (pt)
• Quechua: wañuchiy (qu)
• Romanian: închide (ro), stinge (ro), deconecta (ro)
• Romansch: stüder, stüzzer, stidar, stizar
• Russian: выключа́ть (ru) impf (vyključátʹ), вы́ключить (ru) pf (výključitʹ), гаси́ть (ru) impf (gasítʹ), погаси́ть (ru) pf (pogasítʹ) (light), туши́ть (ru) impf (tušítʹ), потуши́ть (ru) pf (potušítʹ) (light)
• Sardinian: studai
• Sicilian: astutari (scn)
• Slovak: vypnúť pf
• Spanish: apagar (es)
• Sundanese: ᮙᮛᮩᮙᮔ᮪ (mareuman)
• Swedish: stänga av (sv) (device, appliance, light), släcka (sv) (light)
• Thai: ปิด (th) (bpìt), ดับ (th) (dàp)
• Tibetan: བསད (bsad)
• Turkish: kapamak (tr)
• Turkmen: öçürmek, söndürmek
• Ukrainian: вимика́ти impf (vymykáty), ви́мкнути pf (výmknuty)
• Urdu: بند کرنا
• Vietnamese: tắt (vi)
• Yiddish: אויסלעשן (oysleshn)

rotate a tap or valve to stop outflow

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܟ̰ܹܡ (ačem)
• Catalan: tancar (ca)
• Danish: lukke for (da)
• Dutch: dichtdraaien (nl)
• French: fermer (fr)
• German: zudrehen (de), abstellen (de)
• Hungarian: elzár (hu)
• Italian: chiudere (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stenge, skru av (no)

• Polish: zakręcać (pl) impf, zakręcić (pl) pf
• Romanian: închide (ro), opri (ro)
• Spanish: cerrar (es)
• Swedish: stänga av (sv)

leave a road

• Danish: køre af, køre fra
• Estonian: ära keerama, maha keerama
• Finnish: poistua (fi)
• German: abbiegen (de), (highway) ausfahren (de)
• Greek: στρίβω (el) (strívo)
• Hungarian: lefordul (hu), lehajt (hu)
• Macedonian: се исклучува (se isklučuva)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ta av

• Russian: сворачивать (ru) impf (svoračivatʹ), съезжать (ru) impf (sʺjezžatʹ)
• Somali: leexasho
• Spanish: salir (es)
• Swedish: svänga av; stanna (sv)

repulse

• Finnish: etoa (fi), inhottaa (fi), viedä halut (especially sexually)
• French: répugner (fr), dégoûter (fr)
• German: abstoßen (de), abtörnen (de)
• Hungarian: kiábrándít (hu), taszít (hu), lelomboz (hu), lehervaszt (hu), elveszi a kedvét, undorít (hu), lelohaszt (hu)
• Macedonian: одвраќа (odvraḱa), одбива (odbiva)
• Portuguese: broxar (pt)
• Russian: отталкивать (ru) impf (ottalkivatʹ)
• Spanish: repugnar (es)

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