shutting off

Verb

shut off (third-person singular simple present shuts off, present participle shutting off, simple past and past participle shut off)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To stop or turn off by closing something, such as a valve.
   • Richardson dropped into the six-foot between the two engines, ran for a few yards, grabbed Mitchell's engine, and swung himself up. Mitchell had got to his feet by this time, but he made no move. Richardson shut off steam, reversed her, and brought her to a stand.1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54
2. (intransitive, transitive) To switch off.
   • “You can forget about going to that party on Saturday if you don't shut off that video game right now!”2006, Alfie Kohn, Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 97
3. (intransitive, transitive) To separate; to isolate.
   • After his wife died, he shut himself off from the world.