BUG OFF Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

bug off

verb

Definition of bug off

as in to depart

to leave a place often for another I wish you would just bug off and leave me alone

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Recent Examples of bug off To keep pesky bugs off your skin, the pants feature a rope lock around the cuffs. — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2026 Blast bugs off your house with the garden hose. — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025 To keep harlequin bugs off of vegetables, the simplest approach is to cover the plants immediately after planting. — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 16 Apr. 2025 Relying on Pesticides For decades, many gardeners have relied on chemical pesticides to keep bugs off their plants. — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2025

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Verb

On this spring day, international peacekeeping forces have just departed the city and Ari’s roommate Gloria takes her to Kareem’s party to celebrate the end of the citywide curfew.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
The four-day Islay & the Whisky Coast tour departs from Edinburgh and includes transportation, ferry crossings, entrance fees, and three nights in Bowmore (some distillery tours and tastings are available for an additional fee).

— Hayley Domin, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of depart

Verb

Like Portillo, who ended up selling to a private equity firm, Smith brought in a sponsor, Vestar Capital Partners, to scale the business and later exited to Flowers Foods for $795 million in January 2025.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
But Balogun has entered his prime and shouldn’t exit it anytime soon.

— Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of exit

Verb

The helicopter moves quickly away from the bus crash site and starts losing altitude.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
Duarte’s writing features detailed prose and a moving storyline, encompassing grief, healing, and the losses borne by a Latinx family in the name of American patriotism.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of move

Verb

It’s marked by fear, second-guessing, and frustration, all with no guarantee that things will actually get better.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Barack Obama announced the death at 13 of Sunny, the former first pooch from his second presidential term and a Portuguese water dog who hated to get wet.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of get

Verb

The Nashville group Total Wife go off the deep end with mutant hyperpop fantasies on their delightful Come Back Down, while Phoenix’s Glixen get romantic on Quiet Pleasures.

— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
Demanding $250,000 but making off with a four-figure sum, he was apprehended shortly afterwards by police, whereupon the bomb did indeed go off, killing him, and cuing a tortuous, years-long FBI investigation.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of go off

Verb

Vancouver, for all its celebrity hangouts and major studio and streamer film shoots, is also home to a grimy downtown eastside neighborhood where getting off addictions and out of homelessness for many remains a constant struggle.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
Indianapolis quarterback Daniel Jones got off to a near-perfect start in his return from a torn Achilles, marching the Colts down the field for an opening-drive touchdown.

— James Boyd, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of get off

Verb

But Bernie has never had a go, which is why his eye wanders to an advert in the local newspaper (one of Bernie’s hobbies, apart from keeping his toenail clippings in a jar, is cutting out obituaries).

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2026
To say Teagan has her work cut out for her is an understatement.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of cut out

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