turn off

• Verbo frasal usado para indicar a interrupção do funcionamento ou do fluxo de algo, como um aparelho, a luz ou a água, ou para fazer alguém perder o interesse ou sentir aversão.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of stopping the operation or flow of something, such as a device, light, or water, or to cause someone to lose interest or become repelled.

incontável · transitivo e intransitivo · phrasal, separável

1. Stop a deviceformal

   To cause a device, machine, or light to stop operating by pressing a switch or button.

   Desligar

   • Please turn off the lights when you leave.
   • He turned off the television and went to bed.
   • Don't forget to turn off the computer before you go.

   Sinônimosdeactivateshut offswitch off

   Antônimosactivatestartswitch onturn on

2. Cause disgust or disinterestinformal

   To cause someone to lose interest or feel repelled.

   Repelir

   • His rude comments really turned her off.
   • The movie's slow pace turned off many viewers.
   • The smell of the food turned him off completely.

   Sinônimosalienatedisgustnauseateoffendput offrepelsicken

   Antônimosattractengageenticeexciteinterest

3. Leave a roadformal

   To leave one road and enter another, especially a smaller one.

   Virar

   • Turn off the main road at the next junction.
   • We turned off the highway to find a gas station.
   • She turned off onto a narrow country lane.

   Sinônimosdivergeexitleave

   Antônimosenterjoinmerge

Verbo baseturn