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make off with en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To steal (something) and flee.
    • "Supposing now that some of them were to slip into the boat at night and cut the cable, and make off with her? That would be a pretty go, that would." 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  2. To run away together with someone.
  3. (transitive) To capture (someone) and flee.
    • "Gaston: The Beast will make off with your children! He'll come after them in the night!" 1991, Horward Ashman, The Mob Song - Beauty and the Beast:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
making off with Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
made off with Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
made off with Tense=Past lexicographic
makes off with Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

make off

Translations (8)

de sich davonmachen mit (steal something and flee) · es arramblar (steal something and flee) · es arranchar (steal something and flee) · de sich aus dem Staub machen mit (run away together with someone) · de sich aus dem Staub machen mit (steal something and flee) · de sich davonmachen mit (run away together with someone) · de sich davonmachen mit (capture someone and flee) · de sich aus dem Staub machen mit (capture someone and flee)