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Meanings of go off in English

Portuguese
fugir

Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along.

fugir
Catalan
fer foc
Spanish
descargar

Go off or discharge.

fer foc
Portuguese
resultar
Catalan
resultar
Spanish
resultar

Happen in a particular manner.

resultar
Portuguese
implodir
Catalan
implosionar
Spanish
implotar

Burst inward.

implodir
Synonyms
Examples for "come off"
Examples for "come off"
1
And the financial and the oil sanctions in particular will come off.
Reuters
2
His key contribution may have come off the floor at halftime, however.
Reuters
3
I'd come off a season of … I'd won everything that year.
The Guardian
4
I'd had an idea about a Taser that didn't quite come off.
Soon I will be invincible
5
Some readers may think come off it, you're really rich, I suggest.
The Guardian
1
Never mind that interest rates could go over 300 percent a year.
King of the godfathers: "big joey" massino and the fall of the b...
2
Mr Brown met yesterday with interested groups to go over their concerns.
Radio NZ
3
Not surprisingly, the verdict did not go over well with victims' families.
News.com.au
4
I used to go over the wicket and didn't have great control.
The Guardian
5
Let me briefly go over some of the problems with this segment.
Wired
Usage of go off in English
1
She was too young-muchtoo young-muchtoo young-to go off by herself.
When the wind blows
2
To understand that, we need to ask what makes food go off.
BBC
3
Before Baby left, he would go off for longer and longer times.
The Plains of Passage
4
I didn't want to go off course, so I let things be.
The Great Book of Amber
5
The second meeting was to go off in less than ten minutes.
Love at first sight
6
He had seen them go off in the vessel in the morning.
In the Eastern Seas
7
But each time I solved the problem, the lightbulb would go off.
Wired
8
And then she said, I heard the aeroplane go off this morning.
A Town like Alice
9
It was scheduled to go off every 15 minutes through the night.
The Guardian
10
How long could I leave the food before it would go off?
A Gift from Bob
11
So do we go off in search of water, or wait here?
Pathfinder
12
If they continue to go off the rails, chat restrictions are imposed.
Wired
13
I can't just go off and leave the stone behind, he thought.
Kafka on the Shore
14
I thought you'd go off to medical school and I'd be happy.
Atonement
15
A second similar device, which did not go off, was found nearby.
Radio NZ
16
He was supposed to go off duty soon and enter his stoner.
Dayworld Rebel
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