TAKEN OFF Synonyms: 215 Similar and Opposite Words

taken off

verb

Definition of taken off next

past participle of take off

as in moved

to leave a place often for another I can only stay for a few minutes, and then I'll need to take off again

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as in removed

to rid oneself of (a garment) take off your coat and stay awhile

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as in deducted

to take away (an amount or number) from a total the store will take an additional 20% off if you bring in this coupon

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as in stolen (from)

slang to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully a gangbanger who decided to take off some fast-food joint

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Recent Examples of taken off In addition to having those 14 months taken off his overall sentence, Combs is also likely eligible for a reduction in his sentence under the First Step Act and by participating in a drug rehabilitation program. —

Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026 Michigan junior point guard Elliot Cadeau was taken off a team bus Wednesday afternoon before the team departed for Indianapolis and evaluated for an allergic reaction, university officials said. —

Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026 The 18-year-old was taken off the oval in 2022 for allegedly punching a high school classmate in the groin, leading to a felony charge that was reduced to a misdemeanor before eventually being dropped. —

David K. Li, NBC news, 18 Mar. 2026 Still, Smith was taken off the Sharks’ top line alongside Macklin Celebrini and replaced by Michael Misa at times during the second period. —

Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026 To be honest, even with the public spectacle of a trial now taken off CAA’s plate, most of Musero’s case had been trimmed back in June last year (see below), so a lot of what could have taken place on the record and in public would have been somewhere between embarrassing and performative. —

Dominic Patten, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2026 Shikha Jain, a partner and head of consumer, North America at Simon-Kucher, a commercial strategy consulting firm, agreed, adding that the non-alcoholic beverage industry has also taken off. —

Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 5 Mar. 2026 The death penalty has not yet been taken off the table. —

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026 Has taken off and gone through the roof. —

Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026

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Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm struggled to make the cut — DeChambeau didn’t, Rahm did — but Englishman Tyrrell Hatton of Legion XIII shot a 6-under-par 66 and moved into contention to win his first major championship.

— Stan Awtrey, AJC.com, 11 Apr. 2026
Consider what has befallen them in the 11 centuries since Hungarian tribes moved into the Carpathian Basin, in 896.

— Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026