SHUT OFF

{v.} 1. To make (something like water or electricity) stop coming. * /Please shut off the hose before the grass gets too wet./ Compare: TURN OFF. 2. To be apart; be separated from; also to separate from. * /Our camp is so far from the highway we feel shut off from the world when we are there./ * /The sow is so bad tempered we had to shut it off from its piglets./