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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. Katy Perry:

    I really think, like everybody has their opinions on these shows and there is a multitude of them, but I don’t want to be like super shady, but you can name 10 people -- at least -- that have come off ‘American Idol’… that have legitimate careers, that put out music, that have changed their journey, their destiny, affected people’s lives.

  2. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid:

    You can blame it on staff, blame it on whoever you want to blame it on, but we didn't know it was in the bill. The bill will not come off this floor as long as that language is in the bill.

  3. Friedrich Nietzsche:

    Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

  4. James Smith:

    The calculus for this has been evaluating his personal feelings, having just come off Beau's passing.

  5. Mike Halloran:

    A lot of wealth has come off the table for senior executives in the span of 18 months.


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