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go off
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Princeton's WordNet
abscond, bolt, absquatulate, decamp, run off, go off, make offverb
run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
"The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"
go offverb
be discharged or activated
"the explosive devices went off"
fire, discharge, go offverb
go off or discharge
"The gun fired"
go offverb
stop running, functioning, or operating
"Our power went off during the hurricane"
go off, come off, go oververb
happen in a particular manner
"how did your talk go over?"
implode, go offverb
burst inward
"The bottle imploded"
Wiktionary
go offverb
To explode.
go offverb
To explode metaphorically; to become very angry.
go offverb
To begin clanging or making noise.
go offverb
To depart; to leave.
go offverb
To putrefy or become inedible, or to become unusable in any way.
go offverb
To like less.
Rap Dictionary
go offverb
To get busy.To perform on stage or on a record. "The Biz Markie is going off, Go off, Go off" Biz Markie - The Biz is going off
go offverb
To shoot a gun.
go offverb
To get furious due to too much pressure. "I might go off any minute" -- 2pac (I don't give a fu**)
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of go off in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of go off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of go off in a Sentence
It's a two-edge sword, antibodies are crucial to fend off infection, but some COVID-19 patients also develop antibodies that damage their own cells and tissues.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond:
We could be talking as early as next spring to start to see sanctions lifting off.
They were doing their very best with what they had at the moment. You could tell everything was new. It was a new situation. Everything's chaotic. But they were absolutely fabulous, and I tip my hat off to them.
About halfway into it we heard about three pops to the left-hand side of the stage, all of a sudden it became very obvious. We ran off the stage. We crawled underneath it. We laid down, hid, kept quiet, until the police arrived.
In the closing argument, the prosecutor missed one very important phrase -- I stand with Trump and the Constitution and I will never back off that, ever.
Translations for go off
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- ξινίζω, εκπυρσοκροτώ, εκρήγνυμαι, χτυπάω, αλλοιώνομαι, χαλάω, φεύγω, αναχωρώ, κόβωGreek
- [[alkaa]] [[kuulua]], räjähtää, lähteä, pilaantua, [[mennä]] [[pois]], soida, käynnistyä, raivostua, pahentua, poistua, mennä pilalle, häipyäFinnish
- abeo, abscedoLatin
- vertrekken, bederven, afgaan, weggaanDutch
- gå avNorwegian
- разозлиться, портиться, раздаться, испортиться, злиться, уйти, раздаваться, уходить, уезжать, взорваться, зазвучать, взрываться, уехать, звучатьRussian
- gitmekTurkish
- пітиUkrainian
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