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go off
verb
- adverb (of power, a water supply, etc) to cease to be available, running, or functioning
the lights suddenly went off
- adverb to be discharged or activated; explode
- adverb to occur as specified
the meeting went off well
- to leave (a place)
the actors went off stage
- adverb (of a sensation) to gradually cease to be felt or perceived
- adverb to fall asleep
- adverb to enter a specified state or condition
she went off into hysterics
- adverbfoll bywith to abscond (with)
- adverb (of concrete, mortar, etc) to harden
- informal.adverb (of food, milk, etc) to become stale or rotten
- informal.preposition to cease to like
she went off him after their marriage
- informal.adverb to become bad-tempered
- slang.adverb to have an orgasm
- slang.adverb (of premises) to be raided by the police
- slang.adverb (of a racehorse) to win a fixed race
- slang.adverb to be stolen
Example Sentences
"We bought a lot of food that wasn't going to go off, like tuna in cans, just in case," says actor Jaime.
Then the TV monitor and lights went off.
I finished that and went off to Munich for a remake of “Cliffhanger” with Lily James and then did “MobLand.”
It was so loud the alarm on my friend’s Apple watch kept going off with “Warning: you are in a very loud environment!”
"If you go off at the start of the marathon with someone who is trying to get a two thirty and you're nowhere near, that you're not going to get very far."
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