push off

verb

pushed off; pushing off; pushes off

intransitive verb

: set out

we pushed off for home

Synonyms

• move
• exit
• depart
• get
• go
• push on
• pull out
• get off
• peel off
• walk out
• take a walk
• run along
• cut out
• go off
• take off
• step (along)
• escape
• clear out
• shove (off)
• clear off [chiefly British]
• dig out
• bail out
• evacuate

Examples of push off in a Sentence

let's push off while it's still early enough to beat the evening rush

Recent Examples on the Web

Caltrans proposed the highway through the predominantly Black and brown neighborhood, but residents were successful in pushing off the freeway’s construction. —Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025

On the bare stage of Milwaukee Youth Arts Center's Goodman Mainstage Hall, George Lorimer and Caroline Hansen circle each other, embrace, push off and hit the floor, not unlike dancers, but with a lot more words. —Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025

If Troy Franklin hadn’t pushed off and dropped a wide-open end-zone slant from Nix in the fourth quarter, the quarterback’s day against the Chargers (14 of 25, 153 yards, a touchdown, no interceptions) looks completely different. —Luca Evans, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025

Trump’s decision to push off a meeting with Democrats could point to his confidence that the minority party will get the blame if there is a shutdown. —Brett Samuels, The Hill, 23 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1740, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for push off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff