take off
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.62 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To absent oneself from (work or other responsibility), especially with permission.
Example Sentences
- "He took off his shoes."
- "The test grader takes off a point for every misspelled word."
- "Tomorrow the doctor will take the cast off her arm."
- "Sounds nice. Has a certain ring to it. Take your shirt off."
- "The Russian bear has always been eager to stick his paw in Latin American waters. Now we've got him in a trap, let's take his leg off right up to his testicles. On second thought, let's take off his testicles, too."
- "By March 1994, it had moved to Cardiff Canton, and was still allocated there when its nameplates were taken off in March 1997."
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Frequently Paired Words
to lift off