to leave the road that you are travelling along in order to go along another one that leads away from it
to make someone feel bored or no longer interested in something
to stop a piece of equipment working temporarily by pressing a button or by moving a switch
to stop paying attention
to stop someone feeling sexually attracted or sexually excited
to stop using a supply of water, gas, or electricity by turning a tap, pressing a button, or moving a switch
Amber said the first words of our trip just as I was about to turn off Laguna Canyon Road onto my street.
Go and turn the tap off before the bath overflows.
He died about five years ago but when the Gulf War was on he insisted we turn off all the lights.
High up above the forest he found the turn-off that he was looking for.
His bad breath really turns me off!
If you’re coming on the M4, turn off at junction 26.
It is now safe to turn off your computer.
She skirted London on the ring road and slipped easily into the Hertfordshire turn-off.
The emergency crew has turned off local power and gas supplies.
The more she thought about this, between St Antoine and the Aix-en-Provence turn-off, the more obvious it seemed.
This sort of talk could turn a lot of voters off.
To get home, she would turn down Beech Grove and then turn off after about a hundred yards, but she never got there.
Turn off the road onto a dirt driveway.
Very serious... `I turn off the CD player, my bones not telling me that music is likely to be today's special.
When people lose interest they just turn off.
Will you turn the television off, please?
turns off
turning off
turned off
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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