What does shake off mean?
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shake off
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Princeton's WordNet
shake, shake off, throw off, escape fromverb
get rid of
"I couldn't shake the car that was following me"
shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, dropverb
get rid of
"he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
Wiktionary
shake offverb
To remove (something attached to, on or clinging to an object) by shaking.
shake offverb
To dissociate oneself from (an allegation or rumour).
shake offverb
To lose someone who is tracking you
shake offverb
To rid oneself of a malady or its symptoms
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Shake Off
Shake Off is a 2007 short film directed by Hans Beenhakker.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shake off in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shake off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of shake off in a Sentence
I was walking out to the cage, I kind of had this blank look on my face and all these thoughts were coming in my head, all these doubts, and I just couldn't shake off.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The real third rail of American politics is race and racism and if you're accused of it by people in your own party, then it becomes something you can't really shake off, he's skirted around it for a long time… what it's done is it's opened him up to attacks from the inside in a way that hadn't existed before and that I think could have a corrosive effect.
As we saw with the clearly disappointing jobs report, even some bad news is not enough to shake off the positive feeling that has been driving prices higher.
A positive move develops its own momentum, as we saw with the clearly disappointing jobs report, even some bad news is not enough to shake off the positive feeling that has been driving prices higher.
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