Each of the answers here has appeared in puzzles that featured “Put off” or its close variant, giving you options based on previously accepted crossword solutions.
Likely Answers:
- DELAY
- DETER
- DEFER
- POSTPONE
- SHELVE
- DISGUSTED
- ADJOURN
- DISCOURAGED
- OFFENDED
- DETERRED
- TABLE
- POSTPONED
- STALL
- REPEL
- TABLED
- DOLATER
- DISCOURAGE
- ALIENATE
- DAUNTED
- SHELVED
Synonyms and Definitions
DELAY
- Synonyms: check, detain, hold, hold up, holdup, postponement, retard, stay, time lag, wait
DETER
- Synonyms: discourage, dissuade
DEFER
- Synonyms: accede, bow, give in, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put over, remit, set back, shelve, submit, table
POSTPONE
- Synonyms: defer
DISGUSTED
- Synonyms: churn up, disgust, fed up, gross out, nauseate, repel, revolt, sick, sick of, sicken, tired of
ADJOURN
- Synonyms: break up, recess, retire, withdraw
DISCOURAGED
- Synonyms: admonish, demoralised, demoralized, deter, disheartened, monish, warn
OFFENDED
- Synonyms: appal, appall, breach, break, bruise, go against, hurt, infract, injure, offend, outrage, pained, pique, scandalise, scandalize, shock, spite, transgress, violate, wound
TABLE
- Synonyms: board, mesa, tabular array, tabularise, tabularize, tabulate
STALL
- Synonyms: booth, carrel, carrell, conk, cubicle, dilly-dally, drag ones feet, drag ones heels, kiosk, procrastinate, sales booth, shillyshally, stalling, stand
- Definition: A section within a barn where one animal is kept and nourished
REPEL
- Synonyms: beat back, drive, drive back, fight off, force back, push back, rebuff, repulse, snub
ALIENATE
- Synonyms: alien, disaffect, estrange
DAUNTED
- Synonyms: bothered, dash, daunt, fazed, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off