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go off
verb
- adverb (of power, a water supply, etc) to cease to be available, running, or functioning
the lights suddenly went off
- adverb to be discharged or activated; explode
- adverb to occur as specified
the meeting went off well
- to leave (a place)
the actors went off stage
- adverb (of a sensation) to gradually cease to be felt or perceived
- adverb to fall asleep
- adverb to enter a specified state or condition
she went off into hysterics
- adverbfoll bywith to abscond (with)
- adverb (of concrete, mortar, etc) to harden
- informal.adverb (of food, milk, etc) to become stale or rotten
- informal.preposition to cease to like
she went off him after their marriage
- informal.adverb to become bad-tempered
- slang.adverb to have an orgasm
- slang.adverb (of premises) to be raided by the police
- slang.adverb (of a racehorse) to win a fixed race
- slang.adverb to be stolen
Example Sentences
When they go off-book, as it's known in Hollywood parlance, all bets are off.
Stalin retired to his bedroom after telling his bodyguards that they could go off-duty, specifying that they were not to wake him.
Retired floor salesman Steve Sacks put in a plea for the first family to go off-script.
OK, but at any point you want to go off-the-record let me know.
Mapihaw ku ug mutaas ang núta, I go off-key on the high notes.
An' from the very fust go-off they tuk their cue an' stuck to it.
I knew right away this meant I was going to have to go off-Earth again.
Well, one gentleman isn't bound to fly into the arms of another gentleman first go-off.
Then they tried it on the high bars, and the new man stuck right at the go-off.
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