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Off   /ɔf/   Listen
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adverb
1.
From a particular thing or place or position ('forth' is obsolete).  Synonyms: away, forth.  "Wanted to get away from there" , "Sent the children away to boarding school" , "The teacher waved the children away from the dead animal" , "Went off to school" , "They drove off" , "Go forth and preach"
2.
At a distance in space or time.  Synonym: away.  "The party is still 2 weeks off (or away)" , "Away back in the 18th century"
3.
No longer on or in contact or attached.  "He shaved off his mustache"
adjective
1.
Not in operation or operational.  "The lights are off"
2.
Below a satisfactory level.  "His performance was off"
3.
(of events) no longer planned or scheduled.  Synonym: cancelled.
4.
In an unpalatable state.  Synonyms: sour, turned.
5.
Not performing or scheduled for duties.
verb
1.
Kill intentionally and with premeditation.  Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, polish off, remove, slay.



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"Off" Quotes from Famous Books



... as we passed along and cried words of encouragement. On a hill-top we heard the gallop of a horse, and out of a lane dashed a girl—Millie. She smiled at us, nodded as her horse jumped, and gave us a gleam of her white hand as she sped off down ...
— The Jucklins - A Novel • Opie Read
... am ebery-where." Then his broad good humor, running easily into jocular talk, in which he delighted and in which he excelled, was a rich gift to this wise man. It enabled him to keep his secret; to meet every kind of man and every rank in society; to take off the edge of the severest decisions; to mask his own purpose and sound his companion; and to catch with true instinct the temper of every company he addressed. And, more than all, it is to a man of severe labor, in anxious and exhausting crises, ...
— Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday • Various
... child should do toward a parent. But your wealth I cannot take. Let me see that distributed between those children who were disinherited by your wounded pride, and I shall be happy and contented in performing those duties which belong to you, from which you so cruelly cut yourself off." ...
— The Brother Clerks - A Tale of New-Orleans • Xariffa
... round the house: the singers, the orchestra,—electrically sensitive to the impression of the audience,—grew, themselves, agitated and dismayed, and failed in the energy and precision which could alone carry off ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... what I mean," replied Vardon, coolly. "I need not go into details. Only I warn you that if you are seen tampering about the Hamilton airship, on which I am working, that you will not get off so easily as you did ...
— Dick Hamilton's Airship - or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds • Howard R. Garis


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