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Off

adverb

1.

From a particular thing or place or position ('forth' is obsolete). Synonyms: away, forth. "Wanted to get away from there" , "Sent the children away to boarding school" , "The teacher waved the children away from the dead animal" , "Went off to school" , "They drove off" , "Go forth and preach"

2.

At a distance in space or time. Synonym: away. "The party is still 2 weeks off (or away)" , "Away back in the 18th century"

3.

No longer on or in contact or attached. "He shaved off his mustache"

adjective

1.

Not in operation or operational. "The lights are off"

2.

Below a satisfactory level. "His performance was off"

3.

(of events) no longer planned or scheduled. Synonym: cancelled.

4.

In an unpalatable state. Synonyms: sour, turned.

5.

Not performing or scheduled for duties.

verb

1.

Kill intentionally and with premeditation. Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, polish off, remove, slay.

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"Off" Quotes from Famous Books

... burden of, because they made the very common mistake—of which actors get the benefit—of regarding style as evidence of strength, just as in the case of women they are apt to regard paint as evidence of beauty. Now Wilde was so in love with style that he never realized the danger of biting off more than he could chew: in other words, of putting up more style than his matter would carry. Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace ...

— Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris

... upon the desert land whereon he had filed, is one of the mysteries of retributive justice with which this story has nothing to do. Suffice the fact that Mr. Hennage had stayed away from San Pasqual six months, and six months is a sufficient lapse of time for any ordinary public excitement to wear off, particularly in the desert. He had not intended returning so soon, but a letter from Dan Pennycook, to whom Mr. Hennage had communicated his whereabouts, charging the yardmaster to keep him in touch with affairs at the Hat Ranch, had precipitated his descent ...

— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne

... will not do. Don't seek to impose on your legal adviser; don't try to pass yourself off for the Duke of Wellington, for that is not your line. Come, I wager a dinner I can read your thoughts. You ...

— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... his shoulders to lift into free water the stem of the canoe from its touch on the bank. It floated, caught gently by the back wash of the stronger off-shore current. ...

— Conjuror's House - A Romance of the Free Forest • Stewart Edward White

... humiliation, is very striking; and the working out of the vengeance of the goddess by the very ungoddess-like though feminine hand of Mademoiselle Gamard has much that is commendable. Nothing in its well exampled kind is better touched off than the Listomere coterie, from the shrewdness of Monsieur de Bourbonne to the selfishness of Madame de Listomere. I do not know that the old maid herself—cat, and far worst than cat as she is—is at all ...

— The Celibates - Includes: Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac

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