put off

remettre à plus tard, reporter

Décider de faire quelque chose plus tard, souvent parce qu’on ne veut pas le faire maintenant.

En anglais simple : To decide to do something later, often because you do not want to do it now.

• Do not put off your homework.
• I put off calling the dentist for weeks.
• Can we put the trip off until spring?

Comment l'utiliser : put off doing something (I keep putting off cleaning the kitchen.); put something off until something (We put the meeting off until Monday.)

Synonymes : postpone, delay

Expressions courantes : put off something, put off homework, put off repairs

décourager, rebuter

Faire perdre à quelqu’un l’envie de faire quelque chose ou lui en donner une mauvaise impression.

En anglais simple : To make someone dislike something or decide not to do it.

• The smell put me off the food.
• That bad experience put him off flying.
• Do not let the price put you off.

Comment l'utiliser : put someone off something (The smell put me off my lunch.); put someone off doing something (The cost put her off buying a car.)

Synonymes : discourage, deter, repel

Contraires : encourage, attract

Expressions courantes : put someone off, put off customers

déconcentrer, distraire

Empêcher quelqu’un de bien se concentrer sur ce qu’il fait.

En anglais simple : To make it harder for someone to pay attention to what they are doing.

• That noise is putting me off.
• Someone shouted and put her off as she served.
• Does the music put you off while you study?

Comment l'utiliser : put someone off (Your tapping is putting me off.)

Synonymes : distract, disturb

Expressions courantes : put someone off, put me off

dégager, émettre

Libérer une odeur, de la fumée, de la chaleur ou de la lumière autour de soi.

En anglais simple : To send a smell, smoke, heat, or light into the air around something.

• This heater puts off a lot of heat.
• The burning leaves put off thick smoke.
• Does that paint put off strong fumes?

Synonymes : give off, emit

Expressions courantes : put off heat, put off smoke, put off fumes

dégoûté, rebuté

Qui éprouve du dégoût ou un malaise face à quelque chose de désagréable.

En anglais simple : Feeling upset or disgusted by something unpleasant.

• I felt put off by the smell.
• The guests seemed quite put off by his behaviour.
• Were you put off by the dirty tables?

Comment l'utiliser : be put off by something (I was put off by his rude questions.)

Synonymes : disgusted, repelled, offended

Expressions courantes : feel put off, quite put off

intimidé, découragé

Qui trouve quelque chose trop difficile ou trop effrayant pour oser l’essayer.

En anglais simple : Feeling that something is too difficult or frightening to attempt.

• The beginners felt put off by the challenge.
• He was not put off by the steep climb.
• Are you put off by all those forms?

Comment l'utiliser : be put off by something (She was put off by the amount of work.)

Synonymes : daunted, discouraged, intimidated

Contraires : confident

Expressions courantes : feel put off, easily put off