take off
verb- To remove. · He took off his shoes.· The test grader takes off a point for every misspelled word.
- To leave the ground and ascend into the air or into flight. · The plane has been cleared to take off from runway 3.· That high-jumper takes off from her left foot.
- To stand up on a surfboard and begin to surf a breaking wave.
- To become successful, to flourish. · The business has really taken off this year and has made quite a profit.
- To depart. · I'm going to take off now.· Take off, loser!
- To imitate (somebody), often in a satirical manner. · Much of his act involves taking off the Prime Minister and other politicians.
- To take (a specified time period) as a vacation or break from work or other activity. · I'd like to take next Friday off to attend a wedding.· He decided to let his mother take a night off from cooking, so he took her and his siblings out to dinner.
- To absent oneself from work or other responsibility, especially with permission.
From the library
At nine o’clock the president of the club presented himself; the general was ready, the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the bandage.
Hurry and take off your things, and we’ll have supper as soon as Matthew comes in.
“Take off your hat,” the King said to the Hatter.
Holmes, clever as you are; for if you had chanced to take off that plaster you would have found no cut underneath it.
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