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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

do off en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) To take off (clothing).
    • Than seyde Sir Trystram, ‘I requyre you, do of your helmys, that I may se you.’ 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
    • So she laughed, and did off her other raiment, and slid swiftly into the water, that embraced her body in all its fresh kindness […] 1897, William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles:
  2. (slang) To kill, to bump off

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
done off Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
do of alternative lexicographic
doing off Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
does off Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
doff alternative lexicographic
did off Tense=Past lexicographic