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go off

verb as in explode

verb as in leave

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When he opened the civil rights group’s door, a rigged pipe bomb went off, mortally wounding him.

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Nachmias also had to go off injured after colliding with the post.

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He added: “My kid was bright as heck, but when he got treated, he said, boy, it was like a lightbulb went off in my head.”

Instead, most went off for a couple of games with their national teams before reporting back to Paris for an adventure that has taken them to Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, and New York.

And things do turn violent, sometimes for purposes of training and sometimes because someone just goes off his head.

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