OFF Flashcards
Call off
Cancel a meeting
Cut s/o off
Take out of a will
Cut off
Remove with s/th sharp
Stop providing
Block someone’s way
Cut off
Disconnect a phone call accidentally
Give off
Give a terrible smell
Get off
Leave a bus, train etc
Go off
Explode
Stop liking someone/something
Start making a noise
Food/drink: not fresh
Drop off
Leave a passanger somewhere
To start to sleep
Keep off
Avoid mentioning a particular subject in a conversation
To not go onto a particular area of land
If rain or snow keeps off, it does not fall, although you expected it to
Go off
Stop operating (electricity, a computer, tv)
Lay off
To end someone’s employment, especially temporarily, because there is not enough work for them
Fall off
If the amount, level, or value of something falls off, it gets smaller
Pay off
Finish to pay a loan
Hold off
If rain or snow holds off, it does not fall, although you expected it to
To deliberately delay doing something
Drop off
Leave a passenger somewhere
Kick off
Start a game of football
To begin, or to begin something
To force someone to leave a place or activity
Switch off
Stop the energy flow, turn off
To stop listening to someone, or to stop thinking about something
Shake off
To get rid of something bad such as a problem, illness, or fear
Turn off
Switch off equipment
To leave the road that you are travelling along in order to go along another one
To stop paying attention
Burn off
To use up energy or get rid of fat from your body by doing physical activity
Cordon off
To stop people from entering an area by putting something such as a rope around it
Tell off
To criticize someone angrily for doing sg. wrong
Fight off
Try to stop a wild animal attacking you
Lift off
When rockets rise into the air
Make off
Rob and escape
Drive off
You leave a place in some kind of vehicle
Laugh off
Pretend sth was not at all important
Play down
Live off
To depend on someone or something for the money or food that you need
Scrape off
Remove sth with a knife from the surface
Doze/Nod off
Fall into a light sleep without intending to because you are very tired
Pull off
Drive to the side of a road
To succeed in doing sg that is difficult
To take off clothes, especially quickly
Let off
Not punish
To allow someone not to do something that they were expecting to have to do
To allow a passenger to get out of a car or off a bus
Put off
Postpone / distract
Take off
Remove clothing etc
Aircraft: start flying
Become successful etc
To have a particular amount of time away from work
See off
Say goodbye to s/o going on a journey
Set off
Begin a journey
Make something start working
Make something explode
Ring off
To finish a phone call
Wear off
Gradually disappear (feeling, pain, emotion)
Slip off
Leave quietly
Show off
Do thinks to try and impress people
To show people something that you are very proud of so that they will admire it
Stop off
Break your journey somewhere for a time
Write off
Send a letter to an organization
Break off
To stop doing something, especially speaking
To end a relationship or a discussion
If you break a piece off something, you remove it from the main part
Bring STH off
Succeed in doing sth difficult
Carry STH off
Complete successfully
Come off
Succeed
To stop taking sg such as a medicine or drug
Get off with STH
Avoid punishment
Send off
To post something to someone
Rope off
To enclose an area using ropes, usually because of danger
