shake sth off
informal— phrasal verb with shake uk/ʃeɪk/us/ʃeɪk/verb shook, shaken
C2 to get rid of an illness:
I hope I can shake off this cold before the weekend.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Recovering from illness
- be on the mend idiom
- bounce
- bounce back
- clear (sth) up
- come round
- convalescence
- convalescent
- correct
- feel like a new woman/man idiom
- get over sth/sb
- heal
- hold
- lacunar
- mend
- new
- pull
- recuperate
- rehab
- rehabilitation
- rose
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