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go off

English

  1. 🔊 be discharged or activated
    “the explosive devices went off”
  2. 🔊 happen in a particular manner
    “how did your talk go over?”
  3. 🔊 stop running, functioning, or operating
    “Our power went off during the hurricane”
  4. 🔊 burst inward
    “The bottle imploded”
  5. 🔊 go off or discharge
    “The gun fired”
  6. 🔊 run away
    “The thief made off with our silver”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 disparar to go off, to be suddenly jolted into action
  2. 🔊 salir to go off, to turn off (go off script, on a tangent, go off the road/track/path)

Similar words

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