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English Phrasal Verbs - Cloze Tests

Switching Things He'd Switched David Gerrold Bouncing Moon[1

Sentence 2001, David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon[1], page 208:

He began shutting down the flight controls, switching off all the things he'd switched on before, switching on all the things he'd switched off.
Definition (
transitive
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) To
turn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/turn
a
switch
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/switch
to the "off" position in order to
stop
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stop
or
disable
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disable
a device.
Pronunciation
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Tags: switch, off

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