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Go off

verb

Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along. Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, bolt, decamp, make off, run off. "The accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"

Be discharged or activated.

Go off or discharge. Synonyms: discharge, fire.

Stop running, functioning, or operating.

Happen in a particular manner. Synonyms: come off, go over.

Burst inward. Synonym: implode.

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"Go off" Quotes from Famous Books

... our day for action. We saw our enemies making their preparations; we saw them go off to the woods, and return bringing clubs freshly cut from the trees; we saw them dress as for ball-play ...

— The Scalp Hunters • Mayne Reid

... sure it will do any good to go off in our boat," declared Andy. "That fellow is just as likely to be on land ...

— Frank and Andy Afloat - The Cave on the Island • Vance Barnum

... 'low—'Mr. Evans, us does not need yo' services on dis plantation no mo', Sir!' He 'low Marse aint here. Missus 'low—'I does not want to argue de point wid ye, Mr. Evans, fer yo' services has come to an end on dis plantation!' Wid dat ole man Evans go off wid his head a-hanging in shame. Us niggers went out and tole de news wid gladness shining out from our eyes, kaise us was dat glad dat we did not know ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... well, gentlemen!—Is that well managed or not? Have you such a prayer as that on the stage? Sneer. Not exactly. Leic. [To PUFF.] But, sir, you haven't settled how we are to get off here. Puff. You could not go off kneeling, could you? Sir Walt. [To PUFF.] O no, sir; impossible! Puff. It would have a good effect i'faith, if you could exeunt praying!—Yes, and would vary the established mode of springing off with ...

— Scarborough and the Critic • Sheridan

... Bayliss was thin and dyspeptic, and a virulent Prohibitionist; he would have liked to regulate everybody's diet by his own feeble constitution. Even Mrs. Wheeler, who took the men God had apportioned her for granted, wondered how Bayliss and his father could go off to conventions together and have a good time, since their ideas of what made a ...

— One of Ours • Willa Cather

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