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turn off

verb

to leave (a road, pathway, etc)
(of a road, pathway, etc) to deviate from (another road, etc)
tr, adverb to cause (something) to cease operating by turning a knob, pushing a button, etc
to turn off the radio
informal.
tr to cause (a person, etc) to feel dislike or distaste for (something)
this music turns me off
informal.
tr, adverb to dismiss from employment

noun

a road or other way branching off from the main thoroughfare
informal.
a person or thing that elicits dislike or distaste

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But Sally also admits women who already don't want to go for breast screening "would definitely be turned off by a man".

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�� the app offered, however, was escapist materials built around turning off reflection, instead of encouraging it.

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She asks her client to turn on “self-view” and turn off Violet’s window so that the only person her patient can see on the screen is herself.

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Tata Steel at Port Talbot in Wales was once the UK's largest virgin steel producer but it turned off its blast furnace in September 2024, saying it was losing £1.7m a day.

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It is very difficult and very expensive to get blast furnaces running again once they have been turned off, which would make the Scunthorpe site's existing vulnerability even more perilous.

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