Synonyms for off
- verb
- adverb
Definitions
- v. 1
To kill.
- adv. 1
In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
He drove off in a cloud of smoke.
Related words
- Word family
- offish off-street off-the-shelf offy
- Phrases
- knock-off set-off take-off tick off drop-off go off cast-off pissed off
- Other spellings
- offn US
Forms
- Past participle
- offed
e.g. offed → removed, slain, murdered, dispatched…
Choose the right word
Awkward, from awk (kindred with off, from the Norwegian), is off-ward, turned the wrong way; it was anciently used of a back-handed or left-handed blow in battle, of squinting eyes, etc.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- do The climate has much to do with our mind and body.
- remove Please remove that chair because it is in the way.
By length
- 2 letters
- do1
- 3 letters
- out1, hit1
- 4 letters
- away2, slay1
- 5 letters
- forth1, aloof2
- 6 letters
- murder2, remove2
- 8 letters
- dispatch2, despatch
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (away2 = 2 syllables).