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adjective

as in opposing

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verb

past tense of turn off
1
as in disgusted
to cause to feel disgust that memorably bad meal turned me off about restaurant food for a while

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2
as in deviated
to change one's course or direction turn off at the third exit and follow the ramp to your left

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3
as in removed
to let go from office, service, or employment eventually, the supervisor turned off the insubordinate employee

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4
as in shut off
to cause to stop functioning please turn off the fan when you're done

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Recent Examples of turned off
Verb
Restroom faucets will remain operational, but spigot access at South Rim campgrounds will be turned off, with the exception of Mather Campground's check-in kiosk. — Eve Chen, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026 If overhead lines in that system are turned off due to wildfire risk, the connected underground lines may lose power as well. — San Diego Gas & Electric, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026 Noble Audio says battery life was a key part of the Artemis design brief, and the Artemis can play for up to 50 hours with ANC turned off and up to 35 hours with ANC enabled. — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026 All those devices must be turned off and put away during the school day. — Kellye Lynn, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026 The phone then stopped connecting to the cellular network, possibly turned off or disabled, the affidavit said. — Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026 The plant cannot be turned off during periods of high solar power production, so the state ends up cutting back on its solar power or giving it away for free, said Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026 Working hard to ensure that any fans who have started watching because of these players is turned off by the fans. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026 Air Force One, despite the president not being on board, according to the Post, had its transponder turned off. — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned off
  1. opposing
  2. disgusted
  3. deviated
  4. removed
  5. shut off
  6. opposed
  7. sickened
  8. turned
Adjective
  • Federal immigration officials have also issued an arrest warrant for Godoy Alfaro, accusing him of assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding or interfering with a federal officer.
    — Bryan Lynn, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • During training camp and the preseason, Reich has used his tight ends in various ways to exploit opposing defenses.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of opposing
Verb
  • Allie, in particular, is disgusted by the men who treat her as functionally interchangeable with any other available, able-bodied woman.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
  • If the polls are any indication, Americans in general are disgusted with Washington’s Israel policy.
    — Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of disgusted
Verb
  • City officials previously said that the Boveys deviated substantially from the initial plans.
    — Susan Sarkauskas, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The Costa Concordia allegedly deviated from its planned route around the Mediterranean Sea to do this.
    — Katie Mather, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
Definition of deviated
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  • But Boone removed him from the lineup before the top of the fourth, shifting José Caballero to shortstop and bringing in Amed Rosario to play third base.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • That arrest came roughly one-and-a-half-years removed from Cleveland being arrested for DUI.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of removed
Verb
  • The company says the feature will detect officers’ abnormal search activity and shut off their access until an agency administrator can review it.
    — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
  • In people with this gene mutation — which experts say applies to about 1 in 250 people in the United States — one or both copies of ANGPTL3 is shut off.
    — Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of shut off
Adjective
  • Thus polytheistic worship of deities and monist philosophy are not opposed but rather different ways of reaching the divine.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Those opposed weren’t necessarily Trump supporters, according to Tierney.
    — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of opposed
Verb
  • Thousands of people were sickened by foodborne illnesses this summer.
    — Dian Zhang, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The tally of people sickened in the outbreak by the parasite cyclospora is now 11,458, the FDA said, up from about 10,900 reported last week.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of sickened
Verb
  • The last act before festival founder Olivia Rodrigo, Roan turned it out with all of her powers—bolstered by a bold and bitchy, razor-sharp bob.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The maps revealed that a chronic problem had turned critical.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
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“Turned off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20off. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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