Значення:
1) відкладати, відстрочувати, переносити
Синоніми: to postpone, to call off
Приклад: Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today. (John C. Maxwell)
2) викликати огиду, відштовхувати, обурювати
Синоніми: to disgust, to be repugnant, to make огидно
Приклад: i’m usually put off by performers when they get political. (Tracey Ullman)
3) заважати, відволікати, збивати, бентежити
Синоніми: to confuse, to interfere, to hinder, to impede, to hamper, to stand in the way, to distract
Приклад: One of the lessons that I росло up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says put you off from your goals. (Michelle Obama)
4) знімати предмет одягу
Синонім: to take off
Приклад: Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty. (Herodotus)
5) відкинути (сумніви, страхи, побоювання, обережність)
Синонім: to rid the mind of smth, to lay aside, to cast smth to the winds, to give up, to discard, to cast aside
Приклад: Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave. (Claude Bernard)
6) отчаливать, зніматися з якоря
Синоніми: to unmoor, to sail away, to get under way
Приклад: i’m not like most designers, who have to put off from familiar land and set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. (Alexander Wang)
7) вимикати (світло, електрика)
Синоніми: to turn off, to switch off
Приклад: Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone put off the light. (Joyce Carol Oates)
(with smth) звільнитися від когось/чогось (під яким-небудь приводом)
Синоніми: to get rid of, to shake off, to throw off
Приклад: I feel at times that I cannot put my fears off with only making films about them. (Alfred Hitchcock)
Перевірте себе: Never put off till tomorrow what …
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