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put off

Separable

Postpone something

We put off the meeting until Friday.

Make someone not want to do something

The smell of the kitchen put me off my lunch.

Separable

The object can go between the verb and the particle: turn the light off, or turn off the light. When the object is a pronoun it must go in the middle: turn it off, never turn off it.