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put off is a verb meaning "hold back to a later time". It carries 5 recorded senses.
take away the enthusiasm of
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
“He dodged the issue”
“she skirted the problem”
“They tend to evade their responsibilities”
“he evaded the questions skillfully”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for put off come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.