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View definitions for go off

go off

verb as in explode

verb as in leave

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“I see a lot of myself in her, especially as somebody who’s disabled, going off to college and finally feeling like you have that freedom for the first time,” said Bode, now 24 years old.

The vibrations caused by the work led to businesses' trembler alarms repeatedly going off.

From BBC

"It's like we have some hand grenades in the back of a jeep and sometimes they go off when there's a lot of pressure."

From BBC

She was described as an "intelligent, cautious girl" who would not have gone off with a stranger.

From BBC

If Nov. 5 ends up representing the grand finale for American democracy – then “Election Night” will be remembered as that weird companion holding our hands as the first flashes went off on the distant horizon.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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