get off

get off
verb
1. leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc. (Freq. 3)
• Ant: ↑get on
• Hypernyms: ↑exit, ↑go out, ↑get out, ↑leave
• Hyponyms: ↑detrain, ↑deplane
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s something

2. be relieved of one's duties temporarily (Freq. 1)
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

3. transfer (Freq. 1)
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The spy sent the classified information off to Russia

• Syn: ↑send, ↑send off
• Derivationally related forms: ↑send-off (for: ↑send off), ↑sending (for: ↑send)
• Hypernyms: ↑transfer
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

4. cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case (Freq. 1)
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The lawyer got him off, even though there was no doubt in everybody's mind that he killed his wife

• Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

5. escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action (Freq. 1)
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She gets away with murder!

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I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities

• Syn: ↑get away, ↑get by, ↑get out, ↑escape
• Derivationally related forms: ↑escape (for: ↑escape)
• Hypernyms: ↑avoid
• Hyponyms: ↑evade
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s PP

6. enjoy in a sexual way
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He gets off on shoes

• Hypernyms: ↑love, ↑enjoy
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s PP

7. alight from (a horse)
• Syn: ↑unhorse, ↑dismount, ↑light, ↑get down
• Derivationally related forms: ↑dismount (for: ↑dismount)
• Topics: ↑riding, ↑horseback riding
• Hypernyms: ↑descend, ↑fall, ↑go down, ↑come down
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

8. get out of quickly
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The officer hopped out when he spotted an illegally parked car

• Syn: ↑hop out
• Ant: ↑hop on (for: ↑hop out)
• Hypernyms: ↑exit, ↑go out, ↑get out, ↑leave
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

9. send via the postal service
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I'll mail you the check tomorrow

• Syn: ↑mail
• Derivationally related forms: ↑mailer (for: ↑mail), ↑mail (for: ↑mail), ↑mailing (for: ↑mail)
• Hypernyms: ↑send, ↑send out
• Hyponyms: ↑pouch
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody something

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Somebody ——s something to somebody

10. get high, stoned, or drugged
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He trips every weekend

• Syn: ↑trip, ↑trip out, ↑turn on
• Derivationally related forms: ↑trip (for: ↑trip)
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s on something

11. deliver verbally
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He got off the best line I've heard in a long time

• Hypernyms: ↑express, ↑verbalize, ↑verbalise, ↑utter, ↑give tongue to
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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