turn off

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turn someone off

to cause someone to lose interest or sympathy. Her offensive remarks really turned me off. Her opening statement completely turned off the jury.

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Pausing in his intention to turn off the gas burning in the middle of the shop, Mr Verloc descended into the abyss of moral reflections. The Secret Agent by Conrad, Joseph View in context " exclaimed Miranda; "but she can turn off work when she's got a mind to Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context At other times, if a female stranger came among them, three or four of her own sex would get about her, and stare, and chatter, and grin, and smell her all over; and then turn off with gestures, that seemed to express contempt and disdain. Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context More results

References in classic literature

Pausing in his intention to turn off the gas burning in the middle of the shop, Mr Verloc descended into the abyss of moral reflections.

The Secret Agent by Conrad, Joseph View in context

" exclaimed Miranda; "but she can turn off work when she's got a mind to

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context

At other times, if a female stranger came among them, three or four of her own sex would get about her, and stare, and chatter, and grin, and smell her all over; and then turn off with gestures, that seemed to express contempt and disdain.

Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context

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