lift off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.48 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To lift something physically off the ground, or off something else.
Example Sentences
- "We then had to endure a four-hour-long change of bogies at Brest - from the Soviet 1520mm-wide gauge to the 1435mm Polish and West European - when our carriage, with passengers inside, was lifted off the track by giant railway jacks, giving us a brief and not entirely unpleasant feeling of levitation."