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taking offverbpresent participle of take off to leave a place often for anotherI can only stay for a few minutes, and then I'll need to take off again bailing, bailing out, booking(slang), buggering off(British slang), bugging off, bugging out, buzzing (off), clearing off(chiefly British), clearing out, cutting out, departing, digging out, exiting, getting, getting off, going, going off, moving, packing (up or off), parting, peeling off, piking (out or off), pulling out, pushing off, pushing on, quitting, running along, sallying (forth), scarpering(British), shoving (off), stepping (along), vamoosing, walking out setting out, starting, striking outabsconding, decamping, escaping, evacuating, fleeing, flying, getting out, mizzling(chiefly British), running away, scatting, scramming, skippinggoing out, lighting out, stepping outabandoning, deserting, forsaking, vacatingemigratingadjourning, removing, retiring, retreating, withdrawing beating it, hitting the road, pulling stakes(or pulling up stakes), taking a hike(also taking a walk), taking a powder arriving, coming, showing up, turning up abiding, dwelling, lodging, remaining, settling, staying, tarryingapproaching, closing, nearinghitting, landing, reaching to rid oneself of (a garment)take off your coat and stay awhile doffing, dousing, peeling (off), putting off, removing, shrugging off husking, sheddingkicking (off)disrobing, stripping, undressing donning, putting on, slipping (into), throwing (on) wearingappareling(or apparelling), arraying, attiring, bedecking, clothing, dressing, garbing, rigging, robing, suiting to take away (an amount or number) from a totalthe store will take an additional 20% off if you bring in this coupon abating, deducting, knocking off, subtracting decreasing, diminishing, discounting, downsizing, dwindling, knocking down, lessening, lowering, reducingabbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittling adding, tacking (on) adjoining, annexing, appendingcomplementing, supplementingenhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifyingaggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, beefing (up), boosting, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, multiplying, raising slangto remove valuables from (a place) unlawfullya gangbanger who decided to take off some fast-food joint burglarizing, burgling, knocking off, knocking over, ripping off, robbing, stealing (from) ransacking, riflingdespoiling, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravishing, sacking, spoiling, strippingbleeding, breaking in, cheating, chiseling(or chiselling), cozening, defrauding, exploiting, fleecing, gypping, hustling, mulcting, plucking, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindlingholding up, mugging, rolling, sticking up |