take off
— phrasal verb with take uk/teɪk/us/teɪk/verb took, taken
(FLY)
A2 If an aircraft, bird, or insect takes off, it leaves the ground and begins to fly:
The plane took off at 8.30 a.m.
See also
take-off
More examples
- The plane took off three hours late.
- When should we expect to take off?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- parting
- piss
- push along
- push off
- ready
- road
- run
- run away
- sally
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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(SUCCEED)
B2 to suddenly start to be successful or popular:
Her singing career had just begun to take off.
More examples
- With all that publicity, the business really took off.
- His career really took off after that concert.
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Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go (off) without a hitch idiom
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- kill
- rise
- sew sth up
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
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(LEAVE)
informal to suddenly leave somewhere, usually without telling anyone that you are going:
When he saw me, he took off in the other direction.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- parting
- piss
- push along
- push off
- ready
- road
- run
- run away
- sally
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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