Thesaurus / offs
FEEDBACK- assassination
- bloodshed
- crime
- destruction
- felony
- homicide
- lynching
- manslaughter
- massacre
- shooting
- slaying
- terrorism
- annihilation
- blood
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- drown
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- crucify
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- chill
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- blot out
- blue pencil
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- KO
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- shoot down
- take apart
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- wipe off face of earth
- X out
- abate
- decrease
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- dwindle
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- fade
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- lessen
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- shrink
- sink
- subside
- taper
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- back
- close
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- regress
- retire
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- render invalid
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- scratch out
- stamp across
- strike out
- wash out
- wipe the slate clean
- X out
- abate
- back
- close
- decline
- decrease
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- die off
- diminish
- drain away
- draw back
- drop
- dwindle
- ebb
- fade
- fall back
- flow back
- go away
- go back
- lessen
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- regress
- retire
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- retreat
- retrograde
- retrogress
- return
- shrink
- sink
- subside
- taper
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- abolish
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- extinguish
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- uproot
- weed out
- wipe out
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- liquidate
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- off
- purge
- raze
- scratch
- scrub
- squash
- torpedo
- total
- trash
- waste
- blot out
- do away with
- mow down
- root out
- rub out
- shoot down
- take out
- unroot
- wash out
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How to use offs in a sentence
Silent blow-offs from the main steam pipes were connected direct to both condensers.
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP 'TITANIC'BRITISH GOVERNMENTThis Combination Show—old stock-in-trade of one company, and cast-offs from another—ain't the best o' bisness arter all.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, OCTOBER 27TH, 1894VARIOUSHe's got the manners of a gentleman now; offs with his hat, if there's a lady present, and such a neat way of speaking.
RHODA FLEMING, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHIn our day, if you travel by river from the southernmost of these three cut-offs to the northernmost, you go only seventy miles.
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, COMPLETEMARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)And so we started off with fuel for maybe five or six landings and take-offs against Earth gravity.
OPERATION: OUTER SPACEWILLIAM FITZGERALD JENKINSAltogether, what miserable 'set-offs' to the achievement of an 'Orion,' a 'Marlowe,' a 'Delora'!
THE LETTERS OF ROBERT BROWNING AND ELIZABETH BARRETT BARRETT, VOL. 1 (OF 2) 1845-1846ROBERT BROWNING AND ELIZABETH BARRETT BARRETTLay-offs, unless caused through the fault of the Actor, shall not be counted as part of the guaranteed period.
THE ART OF STAGE DANCINGNED WAYBURNDistances have been shortened by "cut-offs," but the Mississippi displays a decided unwillingness to have its length curtailed.
CAMP-FIRE AND COTTON-FIELDTHOMAS W. KNOXThe furniture is not included, as we took little but cast-offs; nor the outfit of fishing and sporting goods.
THE HOUSEBOAT BOOKWILLIAM F. WAUGHThe shoulder of the mountain here consisted of a series of steep grass curves ending in short cliff jump-offs.
THE KILLERSTEWART EDWARD WHITE