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Verb
S:
(v)
shut off
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close off
(stem the flow of)
"shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation"
S:
(v)
shut off
,
close off
(isolate or separate)
"She was shut off from the friends"
S:
(v)
shut off
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block off
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close off
(block off the passage through)
"We shut off the valve"