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Take off   /teɪk ɔf/   Listen
Take off

verb
1.
Leave.  Synonyms: depart, part, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out.
2.
Take away or remove.
3.
Depart from the ground.  Synonym: lift off.
4.
Take time off from work; stop working temporarily.  Synonym: take time off.
5.
Mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner.
6.
Remove clothes.
7.
Get started or set in motion, used figuratively.  Synonym: get off the ground.
8.
Prove fatal.
9.
Make a subtraction.  Synonyms: deduct, subtract.





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"Take off" Quotes from Famous Books



... if you're mad, I'm not. Come in and take off those wet garments, and put on some of Phil's." So she half commanded half persuaded him, still grasping his arm ...
— The Heiress of Wyvern Court • Emilie Searchfield
... called me from the window, and bade me let Margaret take off my things. I got leave to go upstairs with Margaret and take them off there. So I ran up the low easy flight of stairs—they were wooden and uncarpeted—to a matted gallery lit from the roof, with here and there a window in a recess looking upon the lawn. Many rooms opened ...
— Daisy • Elizabeth Wetherell
... that the circumstances of which I have spoken, which so universally surround infancy and childhood, should take off, gradually, the keen edge of moral sensibility, and lessen every virtuous or holy sympathy. I have watched—I believe impartially—the effect on certain sensitive young persons in the circle of my acquaintance. I have watched myself. The result has confirmed ...
— Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages • William Andrus Alcott
... "You must take off boots and stockings at once, and have them dried. I'll put you in the hands of ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... have thrown themselves down on the pillows to have their cry out, but Patty was too methodical for that. "I can't cry comfortably in this rig," she said to herself, beginning to take off the ...
— Patty Blossom • Carolyn Wells


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