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shut off

verb
  1. To stop or turn off by closing something, such as a valve. (intransitive, transitive)
  2. To switch off. (intransitive, transitive)
  3. To separate; to isolate. (intransitive, transitive) · After his wife died, he shut himself off from the world.
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One of them was suddenly shut off.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 190 · C1

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