Wiktionary
vb. (en-third-person singular of: put off)
Usage examples of "puts off".
Her absence might not solve any problems, but at least it puts off having to make decisions.
Every time he takes off from a light, the little two-banger puts off a cloud of blue smoke that earns him dirty looks from drivers roaring around him as the little jitney rockets up to its maximum 58 clicks per hour.
As these are the only possible routes, it is evident that if the sailor puts off his visit to C as long as possible, he must take the last route reading from left to right.
Malzberg's fiction isn't afraid to crash against those rocks that puts off some readers.
For the serpent shedding its skin, to be, as it were, born again, is likened in the Orient to the reincarnating spirit that assumes and throws off bodies as a man puts on and puts off clothes.
One knows that their lands beckon, but one puts off visiting them until tomorrow.
If Russell Eigenblick turns out to be in some sense this Emperor, or convinces enough people of it (I notice, by the way, he continually puts off announcing just who he is, big mystery), then he might be more useful than the reverse.