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go off
verb
- adverb (of power, a water supply, etc) to cease to be available, running, or functioning
the lights suddenly went off
- adverb to be discharged or activated; explode
- adverb to occur as specified
the meeting went off well
- to leave (a place)
the actors went off stage
- adverb (of a sensation) to gradually cease to be felt or perceived
- adverb to fall asleep
- adverb to enter a specified state or condition
she went off into hysterics
- adverbfoll bywith to abscond (with)
- adverb (of concrete, mortar, etc) to harden
- informal.adverb (of food, milk, etc) to become stale or rotten
- informal.preposition to cease to like
she went off him after their marriage
- informal.adverb to become bad-tempered
- slang.adverb to have an orgasm
- slang.adverb (of premises) to be raided by the police
- slang.adverb (of a racehorse) to win a fixed race
- slang.adverb to be stolen
Example Sentences
I finished that and went off to Munich for a remake of 鈥淐liffhanger鈥 with Lily James and then did 鈥淢obLand.鈥
It was so loud the alarm on my friend鈥檚 Apple watch kept going off with 鈥淲arning: you are in a very loud environment!鈥
"If you go off at the start of the marathon with someone who is trying to get a two thirty and you're nowhere near, that you're not going to get very far."
That is a massive blow for them at the back, because they did not look the same team defensively once he went off.
"I have people come to me at the beginning of the day, at the end of the day in tears, and people having to go off sick at the stress of it all," he said.
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