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put off
verb
- tr, adverb to postpone or delay
they have put off the dance until tomorrow
- tr, adverb to evade (a person) by postponement or delay
they tried to put him off, but he came anyway
- tr, adverb to confuse; disconcert
he was put off by her appearance
- tr, preposition to cause to lose interest in or enjoyment of
the accident put him off driving
- intr, adverb nautical to be launched off from shore or from a ship
we put off in the lifeboat towards the ship
- archaic.tr, adverb to remove (clothes)
noun
- a pretext or delay
Idioms and Phrases
Delay or postpone, as in He always puts off paying his bills . This idiom, dating from the late 1300s, gave rise to the proverb Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today , first recorded in the late 1300s (in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee ) and repeated ever since. Also see put one off .Example Sentences
Some teams have been put off by the 'circus' - including his outspoken father - that surrounds Sanders, so some analysts fear he could slide out of the top-five picks, perhaps into the second round.
The couple - married for just 15 minutes - travelled from Latvia and were not put off by the island's underwater risks.
Experts say there's a long list of reasons why men might put off seeking medical help, and new survey data from the NHS suggests that concerns about how they are perceived come into play.
It is clear he is not put off by the police action.
"Yet again he's attempting to put off the trial," she said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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