Verb: shut off
- Stem the flow of
"shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation";
- close off
- Isolate or separate
"She was shut off from the friends";
- close off
- Block off the passage through
"We shut off the valve";
- block off, close off
Derived forms: shut off, shuts off, shutting off
Type of: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, break, break off, cease, discontinue, divide, give up, lay off, quit, separate, stop, surcease [archaic]
Encyclopedia: Shut off