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Definition of 'go off' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) abscond, bolt, absquatulate, decamp, run off, go off, make off
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"

2. (verb) go off
be discharged or activated
"the explosive devices went off"

3. (verb) fire, discharge, go off
go off or discharge
"The gun fired"

4. (verb) go off
stop running, functioning, or operating
"Our power went off during the hurricane"

5. (verb) go off, come off, go over
happen in a particular manner
"how did your talk go over?"

6. (verb) implode, go off
burst inward
"The bottle imploded"


Definition of 'go off' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (verb) go off
to leave to do
Jason went off to make a phone call.; She's going off to college next month.

2.  go off
≠come on
Suddenly all the lights went off.; at the time when the power went off

3.  go off
(of food or drink) to have become unfit to eat or drink
The milk's gone off.

4.  go off
to stop liking
I've gone off that program.

5.  go off
(of an alarm) to start making a warning sound
The alarm went off at six.

6.  go off
(of a weapon) to explode or be fired accidentally
The gun went off when he was cleaning it.; A car bomb went off in the square.

7.  go off
to happen in a particular way

8.  go off
go off without a hitch
to happen exactly as planned
The conference went off without a hitch.


Translation of 'go off' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (of a bomb etc) to explode
The little boy was injured when the firework went off in his hand.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: ontplof Arabic flag Arabic: يَنْفَجِر Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: избухвам
Brazilian flag Brazilian: explodir Czech flag Czech: vybuchnout German flag German: losgehen
Danish flag Danish: gå af; eksplodere Greek flag Greek: εκρήγνυμαι Spanish flag Spanish: estallar, explosionar
Estonian flag Estonian: plahvatama Farsi flag Farsi: منفجر شدن Finnish flag Finnish: räjähtää
French flag French: exploser Hebrew flag Hebrew: להתפוצץ Hindi flag Hindi: विस्फोट होना
Croatian flag Croatian: eksplodirati Hungarian flag Hungarian: felrobban Indonesian flag Indonesian: meledak
Icelandic flag Icelandic: springa Italian flag Italian: esplodere Japanese flag Japanese: 爆発する
Korean flag Korean: 폭발하다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: sprogti Latvian flag Latvian: sprāgt
Malay flag Malay: meletup Dutch flag Dutch: afgaan, ontploffen Norwegian flag Norwegian: eksplodere
Polish flag Polish: wybuchnąć Persian flag Persian: منفجر شدن Pashto flag Pashto: انفجار
Portuguese flag Portuguese: explodir Romanian flag Romanian: a exploda Russian flag Russian: взрываться
Slovak flag Slovak: vybuchnúť Slovenian flag Slovenian: sprožiti se Serbian flag Serbian: eksplodirati
Swedish flag Swedish: explodera, smälla, brinna Thai flag Thai: ระเบิด Turkish flag Turkish: patlamak
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 爆炸 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: вибухати Urdu flag Urdu: منفجر ہونا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: nổ Chinese flag Chinese: 爆炸

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