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come off

verb

Definition of come off

  1. intransitive verb

  2. 1a :  to acquit oneself :  fare came off well in the contestb :  appear, seem

  3. 2 :  succeed a television series that never came off — TV Guide

  4. 3 :  happen, occur

  5. transitive verb

  6. :  to have recently completed or recovered from coming off a good year

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Examples of come off in a Sentence

  1. couldn't believe that the wedding would actually come off—they've been “just dating” for years

  2. the attempted revival of the city's downtown never really came off, and even more stores eventually closed

First Known Use of come off

1596

come off Synonyms

Synonyms
be, befall, betide, chance, come, come about, come down, happen, cook, do, go down [slang], go on, hap, occur, pass, transpire
Antonyms
bomb, collapse, fail, flop, flunk, fold, founder, miss, strike out, wash out
Related Words
break, develop, rise, shape (up); arise, come up, crop (up), materialize, spring (up); intervene; fall out, follow, result, turn out; go off, proceed
Near Antonyms
languish; flounder, struggle; decline, sink, skid, slip, slump, wane; crash, crater, crumble, flame out; choke, crack up, miscarry, misfire; fall down, go under; implode, self-destruct

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