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pushes off

VERB

leave; go to another place

Synonyms

WEAK

beat it continue depart exit fare get away get lost go go away hie hit the road journey keep going launch light out make oneself scarce make progress pass proceed process pull out quit repair shove off start take off travel wend withdraw

Antonyms

WEAK

arrive come

VERB

leave

Synonyms

WEAK

beat it blow continue depart exit fare get away get lost get off go go away hie journey keep going launch light out make progress pass proceed process pull out push on quit repair shove off start take off travel wend withdraw

Example Sentences

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I wave goodbye as he pushes off like a cheery Einstein into a bizarre late-May mixture of rain and sleet — a scene as ordinary and apocalyptically surreal as his fiction, or America in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2022

They found that when a male pushes off its female partner, hydraulic pressure in front leg joints allows them to expand at lightning speed, launching the spider backward.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 25, 2022

Put your hands on your glutes to see whether they are firing when your foot pushes off the floor behind you.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2022

It will be at least 12 to 18 months before he pitches again, and the longer he pushes off the operation, the longer you will be without him.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2020

He pushes off the desk and approaches me, an intrepid smile stretching across his face.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer