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Verb shut-off has 3 senses
- shut off, close off - stem the flow of
--1 is one way to discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- shut off, close off - isolate or separate
--2 is one way to separate, divide
Sample sentences:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- shut off, block off, close off - block off the passage through
--3 is one way to barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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