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take off
verb
- tr to remove or discard (a garment)
- intr (of an aircraft) to become airborne
- informal.to set out or cause to set out on a journey
they took off for Spain
- tr (of a disease) to prove fatal to; kill
- informal.tr to mimic or imitate, esp in an amusing or satirical manner
- informal.intr to become successful or popular, esp suddenly
noun
- the act or process of making an aircraft airborne
- the stage of a country's economic development when rapid and sustained economic growth is first achieved
- informal.an act of mimicry; imitation
Example Sentences
鈥淭he more money we got, the more bad guys we take off the street, the safer America is,鈥 Tom Homan, Trump鈥檚 鈥渂order czar,鈥 said he told members of Congress earlier this year.
Team-mate Cody Gakpo had earlier been shown a yellow card for celebrating his goal to make it 3-1 by taking off his shirt to reveal an 'I belong to Jesus' T-shirt.
To understand why these sweet, processed salads took off, and then fell so hard, one has to look at what they represented.
鈥淭he first time I would see that is that if I had difficulty flying a helicopter 鈥 taking off and flying. It鈥檚 a severe test of your brain.鈥
But as the streaming wars took off, password sharing between significant others and parents and their adult children became rampant.
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