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come off

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. detach, come off, come awayverb

    come to be detached

    "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"

  2. go off, come off, go oververb

    happen in a particular manner

    "how did your talk go over?"

  3. chip, chip off, come off, break away, break offverb

    break off (a piece from a whole)

    "Her tooth chipped"

Wiktionary

  1. come offverb

    To come away (from a place); to leave.

  2. come offverb

    To become detached.

  3. come offverb

    To have some success, to succeed.

  4. come offverb

    To have an orgasm.

  5. come offverb

    To appear; to seem; to project a certain quality.

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  1. come off

    "Come off" is a phrasal verb with different meanings based on the context in which it's used: 1) To succeed or happen with desired result; For example, "Their plan didn't come off as they expected." 2) To detach or remove from something larger; For example, "The tag came off the shirt." 3) To cease doing something or to discontinue; For example, "She will come off her medication next week." 4) Comparatively (come off better/worse) it means the result or impression that is made after a certain event; For example, "In the debate, she came off better than her opponent." 5) To give an impression of being a particular type of person, often negative; For example, "He came off as arrogant in the interview." It's important to see the phrasal verb 'come off' in context to fully understand its meaning.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of come off in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of come off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of come off in a Sentence

  1. Yoshiro Mori:

    Just as everybody was getting into step and things were starting to move, it's as if one wheel has come off, it is really too bad.

  2. Brett Kavanaugh:

    I'm going to concentrate in the next three days, today, Thursday and Friday, as long as I can, we've got to have time to plan for a hearing and it's going to come off -- there's a certain time we have to notify people that there is going to be a hearing.

  3. Ari Fleischer:

    It tells you about the president himself, presidents can hire funny speechwriters, but for the jokes to come off well, they have to really be reflective of the president's personality. Bush, in private and in public, had a self-mocking personality, self-deprecating, full of humor.

  4. Sarah Laurel:

    I’d rather come off fentanyl and heroin put together than xylazine.

  5. Cornelius Freeman:

    When I came through the fence, my landlord was right there, on his knees, it just looked like he just — like all the skin had come off him.


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