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take off

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: take off

1
 v
remove clothes
2
 v
leave
3
 v
take away or remove
4
 v
take time off from work; stop working temporarily
5
 v
mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner
6
 v
prove fatal
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: take off
1

v remove clothes

“take off your shirt--it's very hot in here”
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peel off
take off, as with some difficulty
slip off
take off with ease or speed
uncloak
remove a cloak from
doff
remove
Type of:
discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress
get undressed
2

v leave

“The family took off for Florida”
Synonyms:
depart, part, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out
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lift off
depart from the ground
roar off
leave
blaze, blaze out
move rapidly and as if blazing
sally forth, sally out
set out in a sudden, energetic or violent manner
Type of:
go away, go forth, leave
go away from a place

v depart from the ground

“The plane took off two hours late”
Synonyms:
lift off
Type of:
depart, part, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out
leave

v get started or set in motion, used figuratively

Synonyms:
get off the ground
Type of:
get going, go, start
begin or set in motion
3

v take away or remove

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discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress
get undressed
declaw
remove the claws from
dehorn
take the horns off (an animal)
disbud
destroy undeveloped horn buds (of cattle)
Type of:
remove, take, take away, withdraw
remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

v make a subtraction

Synonyms:
deduct, subtract
Antonyms:
add, add together
make an addition by combining numbers
add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up
determine the sum of
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carry back
deduct a loss or an unused credit from taxable income for a prior period
Type of:
calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out
make a mathematical calculation or computation
4

v take time off from work; stop working temporarily

Synonyms:
take time off
Type of:
break up, cut off, disrupt, interrupt
make a break in
5

v mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner

“This song takes off from a famous aria”
Type of:
copy, imitate, simulate
reproduce someone's behavior or looks
6

v prove fatal

“The disease took off”
Type of:
kill
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
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