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turn off

Separable

Stop an appliance, light or tap

Turn the tap off when you brush your teeth.

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.

The particle: off

This verb belongs to the group ‘switching and shutting off’.

Others in the group: switch off, shut off.