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lift off en · VERB
Meanings
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Synonym of take off (leave the ground and begin flight).
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To lift something physically off the ground, or off something else.
We then had to endure a four-hour-long change of bogies at Brest - from the Soviet 1520mm-wide gauge to the 1435mm Polish and West European - when our carriage, with passengers inside, was lifted off the track by giant railway jacks, giving us a brief and not entirely unpleasant feeling of levitation.
2026 January 21, Vitali Vitaliev, “By train to a New World”, in RAIL, number 1053, page 68:
Forms
Deriveds
liftoff · lift-off
Relateds
lift up
Synonyms
take off