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Put off

verb

Hold back to a later time. Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table.

Cause to feel intense dislike or distaste. Synonym: turn off.

Take away the enthusiasm of. Synonym: dishearten.

Cause to feel embarrassment. Synonyms: confuse, disconcert, flurry.

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues). Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, sidestep, skirt. "She skirted the problem" , "They tend to evade their responsibilities" , "He evaded the questions skillfully"

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"Put off" Quotes from Famous Books

... under her orders; and at every halt, an altar was set up and the sacrament administered. No oath or foul language passed without punishment or censure. Even the roughest and most hardened veterans obeyed her. They had put off for a time the bestial coarseness which had grown on them during a life of bloodshed and rapine; they felt that they must go forth in a new spirit to a new career, and acknowledged the beauty of the holiness in which the heaven-sent Maid was ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

... on the next corridor, I soon put off my own things, arrayed myself in the feminine attire, and, looking in the glass opened the dressing gown and lifted up my chemise to see how I looked beneath. Neither my Mamma or my Aunt were big women; they were rather what I call the thoroughbred type, about the Venus height and slim, with splendid ...

— Forbidden Fruit • Anonymous

... that he was still vigorously endeavoring to get the Palm violin back from Flechter. As contradicting him in this respect, and as tending to show that the suit had not only been compromised but that he and Flechter were engaged in trying to put off the Palm violin as a genuine Stradivarius and share the profit of the fraud, the prosecution introduced the following letter from the witness ...

— True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office • Arthur Train

... that Maule would leave the tailing-mob before the other men that afternoon, and would probably come to look for her here. So having arrived at her decision and wishing to put off the inevitable scene as long as possible, she set forth by ...

— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

... given, they continued looking out to the southward for the approach of any other dhows, although there was but little chance of their being stopped; as it was very evident that neither of the boats were in a condition to put off in chase of them. In a short time they saw that the boats were employed in carrying the people from the dhow to the shore, but even before they landed they were hidden from sight by the intervening rocks and trees. From the frequent trips the boats had to make, ...

— The Three Commanders • W.H.G. Kingston

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