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go off

verb

Definition of go off

intransitive verb

1 : explode
2 : to burst forth or break out suddenly or noisily
3 : to go forth, out, or away : leave
4 : to undergo decline or deterioration
5 : to follow the expected or desired course : proceed the party went off well
6 : to make a characteristic noise : sound could hear the alarm going off
go off the deep end
1 : to enter recklessly on a course
2 : to become very much excited
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Synonyms & Antonyms for go off

Synonyms

blow, blow up, burst, crump, detonate, explode, pop

Antonyms

implode

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Examples of go off in a Sentence

specialists were able to deactivate the bomb before it went off the wedding went off without so much as a single glitch

First Known Use of go off

1579, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of go off was in 1579

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