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take off

English

  1. 🔊 remove clothes
    “take off your shirt--it's very hot in here”
  2. 🔊 take away or remove
    “Take that weight off me!”
  3. 🔊 prove fatal
    “The disease took off”
  4. 🔊 mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner
    “This song takes off from a famous aria”
  5. 🔊 depart from the ground
    “The plane took off two hours late”
  6. 🔊 take time off from work
  7. 🔊 get started or set in motion, used figuratively
    “the project took a long time to get off the ground”
  8. 🔊 make a subtraction
    “subtract this amount from my paycheck”
  9. 🔊 leave
    “The family took off for Florida”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 sacar to take off, remove (e.g. clothing, footwear, jewelry)
  2. 🔊 quitar to take off, to remove, to disrobe, to doff (as clothes or accoutrements)

Similar words

subtract deduct get off the ground depart part start start out set forth set off set out lift off take time off abate abscind absquatulate act act a part act as act out advance allow ameliorate amend amputate