Synonym: circumvent, confuse, defer, disconcert, dishearten, dodge, duck, elude, evade, flurry, fudge, hedge, hold over, parry, postpone, prorogue, put over, remit, set back, shelve, sidestep, skirt, table, turn off. Similar words: put out, put on, out of, cut off, get out of, run out of, come out of, keep out of. Meaning: v. 1. hold back to a later time 2. cause to feel intense dislike or distaste 3. take away the enthusiasm of 4. cause to feel embarrassment 5. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues).
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(151) That ended after Sept. 11, as travelers stayed home because of the jitters or were put off by new airport-security measures.
(152) Status also plays a role, but so, too, do fears that those who put off buying will be priced out of the market indefinitely.
(153) Some English-speaking theatergoers will be put off by parts of "Chinglish, " given that about a quarter of the dialogue is in Mandarin.
(154) So you can put off looking for the real maniac who took my son?
(155) Mr. Stanford's illness prompted Judge Hittner to put off a hearing on Thursday scheduled to discuss Mr. Stanford's legal representation.
(156) If a quantity of oil should take fire, how could it best be put off?
(157) It is highly probable that many of the Service's personnel were put off by such high-flown rhetoric.
(158) We shall lose a fine opportunity if I put off to Cairo.
(159) It's easy to put off emergency response planning as we devote our attentions to tasks with more immediate "payback."
(160) Because humanists are put off by the jargon used in computer manuals and by computer professionals, it is important to stay away from unnecessary technical terminology.
(161) Hadn't we better put off our picnic for anther day?
(162) Then- the morning light still waxing stronger- old patriarchs would rise up in great haste, each in his flannel gown, and matronly dames, without pausing to put off their night-gear.
(163) Don't be put off by the numbers, or by the fact that "it's math".
(164) You know you are a procrastinator and you have put off dealing with it as long as possible.
(165) Compared with what people do in real life, they can play completely different roles in the network. People put off their masks for there isn't any restriction or artificialness in the net.
(166) It rained; therefore the track and field meet was put off.
(167) In truth, however, it would be best to put off all major purchases until mid-June.
(168) Would no longer be allow to put off tax on profit made and reinvested abroad.
(169) Is it mere incompetence, or are they being deliberately put off the trail, and if so, by whom?
(169) Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
(170) It rained and on yesterday and so we had to put off our football game.
(171) An American reader of translated Chinese poems may well be taken aback, even put off, by the frequency, as well as the sentimentality of the lament for home.
(172) You are not as angry as the American whom I put off the train at Dijon.
(173) Mr. Fagan said this would put off unscrupulous traders finding it easy to re-route export cigarettes.
(174) Have you ever put off a difficult phone call or a high-pressure task for days and days ... only to find it looming larger and larger in your mind?
(175) Jod put off Rundstedt.
(176) Ernest shrugged. 'Apparently the Executive Committee meeting has already been put off twice, and they'll all be in a snit.
(177) The functional test approve that this product has many good effect such as put off the caducity, adjust immunity, strong body and kidney and improve the body resistibility etc.
(178) He says prospective fathers-in-law are put off by his career.
(179) Something tells us that if the lack of oxygen and the molten surface of COROT-7b didn't put off Captain Kirk and company, constant showers of silicate rocks might.
(180) Some believe this level of compensation is essentially a poison pill to put off any rival bidders.
More similar words: put out, put on, out of, cut off, get out of, run out of, come out of, keep out of, out of work, out of date, out of order, out of sight, out of place, out of doors, out of danger, out of breath, out of control, out of practice, out of the question, put, put in, put up, input, put to, output, deputy, put away, put down, dispute, computer.