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Definition of "go off" [go off]

  • To explode. (verb)
  • To explode metaphorically; to become very angry. (verb)
  • To begin clanging or making noise. (verb)
  • To depart; to leave. (verb)
  • To putrefy or become inedible, or to become unusable in any way. (verb)

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Use "go off" in a sentence
  • "If you succeed and help this ceremony of joining to go off without a hitch, if the null-field device is installed, and so on, I will be given a slap on the wrist by Starfleet for my actions, but lauded publicly as the savior of this world."
  • "Do you think I would let her go off by herself like this, Cary Logan?"
  • "My alarm clock didn't go off this morning, instead I woke up to the sound of my cell phone ringing, it was my daughter Kirstin calling to say "Happy Mother's Day"."