Definition of "put off" []

• To procrastinate (verb)
• To delay (a task, event, or deadline) (verb)
• To offend, repulse, or frighten (verb)
• Offended, repulsed (adjective)
• Daunted or fazed (adjective)

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• "We bet the parent who had been charged with arranging the hotel or travel arrangements was present-oriented and simply put off that future-focused obligation."
• "Cebalinus, however, was not to be put off so easily."
• "Therefore Philip put off the irate Pausanias with promises of future justice."