Thesaurus / dust off
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synonyms for dust off
- cancel
- end
- give up
- leave
- lose
- stop
- abort
- adios
- cease
- desert
- discontinue
- dismiss
- disown
- ditch
- divorce
- forfeit
- forsake
- interrupt
- jilt
- kick
- quit
- reject
- relinquish
- remit
- renounce
- repudiate
- resign
- sacrifice
- scratch
- scrub
- separate
- shake
- terminate
- be alienated from
- break with
- call off
- cast off
- eighty-six
- forget about
- have done with
- part from
- part with
- throw over
- wash out
- waste one
- wipe out
- write off
- assassinate
- behead
- butcher
- decapitate
- destroy
- execute
- exterminate
- lynch
- massacre
- shoot
- slaughter
- slay
- strangle
- abolish
- asphyxiate
- chill
- cool
- defeat
- dispatch
- drub
- electrocute
- eliminate
- eradicate
- extinguish
- finish
- garotte
- guillotine
- hang
- hit
- knife
- liquidate
- mangle
- mar
- misuse
- off
- ruin
- smother
- snuff
- spoil
- thrash
- waste
- blot out
- bump off
- do in
- knock off
- put away
- rub out
- take a life
- take for a ride
- take out
- knock off
- put down
- assassinate
- bury
- cool
- cut off
- destroy
- dispatch
- do away with
- do in
- execute
- finish
- inter
- liquidate
- murder
- plant
- put out of its misery
- put to sleep
- slay
- tomb
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use dust off in a sentence
A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYIn the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTIt was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSNever mind the dust; I've turned it on to make believe we're going tremendously fast.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYLHe laid it upon the floor, and took out a plaster mask, and brushing and blowing off the saw-dust, held it up.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUWhen the smoke and dust cleared away nothing stirred on the whole of that piece of ground.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONTressan smote the table before him a blow that shook some of the dust out of the papers that cumbered it.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIA fearsome thunderstorm or howling tornado of dust might reveal her fickleness of mood at any moment.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYHer feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDIf Lyn gave Lessard the right figures, there should be between a hundred and forty or fifty pounds of dust.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRWORDS RELATED TO DUST OFF
- abort
- adios
- be alienated from
- break with
- call off
- cancel
- cast off
- cease
- desert
- discontinue
- dismiss
- disown
- ditch
- divorce
- dust off
- eighty-six
- end
- forfeit
- forget about
- forsake
- give up
- have done with
- interrupt
- jilt
- kick
- leave
- lose
- part from
- part with
- quit
- reject
- relinquish
- remit
- renounce
- repudiate
- resign
- sacrifice
- scratch
- scrub
- separate
- shake
- stop
- terminate
- throw over
- wash out
- waste one
- wipe out
- write off
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.