switch off

• Фразовый глагол, используемый для обозначения действия по выключению устройства, света или механизма с помощью переключателя, или для прекращения внимания.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of turning off a device, light, or machine by operating a switch, or to stop paying attention.

uncountable · transitive and intransitive · phrasal, separable

1. Stop paying attentioninformal

   To stop listening or paying attention to something, often due to boredom or fatigue.

   Отключиться

   • I switched off during the long lecture.
   • He tends to switch off when the conversation gets too technical.
   • She switched off completely after the first hour of the meeting.

   Synonymsdrift off

   Antonymsattendengage

2. Disconnect a deviceformal

   To turn off a device, machine, or light by using a switch or button.

   Выключить

   • Please switch off the lights before leaving.
   • He switched off the computer after finishing his work.
   • Make sure to switch off the engine when refueling.

   Synonymscut offdeactivatedisablekillshut downshut offturn off

   Antonymsactivatestartswitch onturn on

Base verbswitch