Definition of "check off" [check off]

• To remove something from a list, by crossing it or otherwise (verb)

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• "Narby watched the roster clerk check off the Ship's Officers as they arrived, worried under a bland countenance."
• "Father's supper, to watch her check off the rich dark caramels she unfailingly kept on hand for us, to share her wickedness in skirmishing to avoid outsiders, or to connive in her intrigue to outwit the cat of perpetual unpopularity in her esteem, – what other joys could drag us from these?"