| 单词 | to make off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make off to make off ΚΠ 1640 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1826) (modernized text) II. 12 He could not subsist here, and thereupon made off his estate. 2. intransitive. To depart or leave a place, esp. suddenly or hastily; to hasten or run away; to decamp, bolt. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily fleec825 runOE swervea1225 biwevec1275 skip1338 streekc1380 warpa1400 yerna1400 smoltc1400 stepc1460 to flee (one's) touch?1515 skirr1548 rubc1550 to make awaya1566 lope1575 scuddle1577 scoura1592 to take the start1600 to walk off1604 to break awaya1616 to make off1652 to fly off1667 scuttle1681 whew1684 scamper1687 whistle off1689 brush1699 to buy a brush1699 to take (its, etc.) wing1704 decamp1751 to take (a) French leave1751 morris1765 to rush off1794 to hop the twig1797 to run along1803 scoot1805 to take off1815 speela1818 to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 absquatulize1829 mosey1829 absquatulate1830 put1834 streak1834 vamoose1834 to put out1835 cut1836 stump it1841 scratch1843 scarper1846 to vamoose the ranch1847 hook1851 shoo1851 slide1859 to cut and run1861 get1861 skedaddle1862 bolt1864 cheese it1866 to do a bunkc1870 to wake snakes1872 bunk1877 nit1882 to pull one's freight1884 fooster1892 to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892 smoke1893 mooch1899 to fly the coop1901 skyhoot1901 shemozzle1902 to light a shuck1905 to beat it1906 pooter1907 to take a run-out powder1909 blow1912 to buzz off1914 to hop it1914 skate1915 beetle1919 scram1928 amscray1931 boogie1940 skidoo1949 bug1950 do a flit1952 to do a scarper1958 to hit, split or take the breeze1959 to do a runner1980 to be (also get, go) ghost1986 1652 Weekly Intelligencer 1 June 486 They were so torn by our great shot, that they had much to do to make off to Sea, to preserve themselves from apparent destruction. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 93 Horsing the deer on his own Back, and making off. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 85. ¶5 My Sister took this Occasion to make off. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 35 He could not find in his heart to leave me, and make off, which he might easily have done. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 13 Should your horse prove, what is properly termed too many for you, and make off. 1805 Log of H.M.S. Belleisle 21 Oct. in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. 164 (note) Several of the Enemy's ships making off to leeward. 1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. xi. 214 [He] perceived that the bull had not made off with the rest of the cattle. 1889 G. Gissing Nether World I. xii. 272 He..made off at a run. 1918 Stars & Stripes 1 Mar. 1/7 It appeared that the sergeant and one Frenchman had seen him making off in the dark and had chased him. 1927 V. Woolf To Lighthouse i. 116 Nancy made off, after lunch, to her attic, to escape the horror of family life. 1986 K. Amis Old Devils iii. 64 Charlie got up with deliberation and made off after the wine waiter. 3. intransitive. to make off with: to decamp while in possession of, to carry off. Also (occasionally reflexive): = sense 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)] pick?c1300 takec1300 fetch1377 bribec1405 usurpc1412 rapc1415 to rap and rendc1415 embezzle1495 lifta1529 pilfer1532 suffurate1542 convey?1545 mill1567 prig1567 strike1567 lag1573 shave1585 knave1601 twitch1607 cly1610 asport1621 pinch1632 snapa1639 nap1665 panyar1681 to carry off1684 to pick up1687 thievea1695 to gipsy away1696 bone1699 make1699 win1699 magg1762 snatch1766 to make off with1768 snavel1795 feck1809 shake1811 nail1819 geach1821 pull1821 to run off1821 smug1825 nick1826 abduct1831 swag1846 nobble1855 reef1859 snig1862 find1865 to pull off1865 cop1879 jump1879 slock1888 swipe1889 snag1895 rip1904 snitch1904 pole1906 glom1907 boost1912 hot-stuff1914 score1914 clifty1918 to knock off1919 snoop1924 heist1930 hoist1931 rabbit1943 to rip off1967 to have off1974 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 325 I made off with this little Booty to Ipswich.] 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 231 A bare removal from the place in which he found the goods, though the thief does not quite make off with them, is a sufficient asportation. 1792 H. Cowley Day in Turkey ii. ii. 30 They thought fit to make off with what they had. 1820 J. Gifford Compl. Eng. Lawyer ii. xiii. 216 Although the thief do not quite make off with them. 1856 J. H. Newman Callista xxviii. 249 He was quite easy about Agellius, who had, as he considered, successfully made off with himself. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. vii. 61 Mr. Wegg, had seen the minion surreptitiously making off with that bottle. 1890 Standard 14 Apr. 2/6 The girl had made off with her employer's money. 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. vii. 72 The successful women, bumped and jostled by the rest, were trying to make off with their saucepans. 1989 V. S. Pritchett Chekhov xii. 144 They make off with his crops openly by the wagonload. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > fatten sheep or lambs flush1764 turnip1799 to make off1851 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > fatten flush1764 to make off1851 1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 395 Whenever farmers make off their own flock instead of selling their lamb-hogs to feeders, they choose a small breed. 1852 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 13 i. 60 The lambs are..made off fat, early in the summer. 1868 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 4 ii. 264 No store stock..is ever sold, everything being made off for the butcher. < as lemmas |
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