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Call off   /kɔl ɔf/   Listen
Call off

verb
1.
Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled.  Synonyms: cancel, scratch, scrub.  "Cancel the dinner party" , "We had to scrub our vacation plans" , "Scratch that meeting--the chair is ill"
2.
Give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance.  Synonym: call.






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"Call off" Quotes from Famous Books



... good Master Nicholas," rejoined Potts; "for pity's sake call off these infernal hounds. They will rend me asunder as ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

... answered Covan as before, 'it had been easier for you to call off your dogs than to come here to tell me.' And he stayed where he ...
— The Orange Fairy Book • Andrew Lang

... began Wilson again after a short pause, "although you all look hearty enough, I'm told there are some sick among you. Now then, Mr. Jermin, call off the names on that sick-list of yours, and let them go over to the other side of the deck—I should like to see ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville

... the Mexican territory; while the Mexican army appointed to combat and conquer Gen. Taylor, remains at ease and content at Mexico, calculating, probably, that the longer they wait, the less distance they will have to travel to encounter the Yankees. Whether our President will call off Gen. Taylor with the American troops, before they reach anywhere in particular, ...
— Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 • Various

... Tad turned inquiringly at the sound. Lige and the Professor, being engaged in earnest conversation at the time, had not heard Stacy Brown's plaintive call off ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies • Frank Gee Patchin


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