go off
verboEn español: explotar, disparar, sonar, marcharse
- To explode. · The bomb went off right after the president left his office.
- To fire, especially accidentally. · The gun went off during their struggle.
- To explode metaphorically; to become very angry or overexcited. · It all went off when the opposing teams' fans met at the railway station.· When the boss came to know about the scheme, he went off, shouting and throwing everything away.
- To begin clanging or making noise. · The alarm will go off at six a.m.· Just after he spotted the first plane on the horizon, sirens started to go off around the city.
- To stop operating; to switch off. · We were watching TV when suddenly the power went off.
- Of dairy cattle, to stop producing milk.
- To depart; to leave. · Having sated her appetite, she went off in search of a place to sleep.· I don't know where he's going—he went off without a word.
- To like gradually less. · Ever since falling off her bike, she's gone off cycling to work.· We needed a vet visit because some of the cattle had gone off their feed.
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'Tis he, when at night you go off to your bed,
But he remembered Nag and Nagaina, and though it was very pleasant to be patted and petted by Teddy’s mother, and to sit on Teddy’s shoulder, his eyes would get red from time to time, and he would go off into his long war cry of “Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!”
“Yes, sir, I go off duty at eleven.”
"To actually go off with the Mazarin stone would be a more serious offence than to be found in temporary possession of it."
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