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taking off

noun as in departure

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It is the manner of the taking-off of this one of the Flemings that makes material for the story I am telling here.

Whatever we may think of the mode of the taking-off of these three men, everyone admits that the result was beneficial.

The pity of his taking-off would have had no more record than a few lines of small type, but for one further accident.

Killing day came, and the neighbours arrived from all about to witness the taking-off of this monstrously fat beast.

And, the ghastly news of Johnstone's "taking-off" flew over Delhi to furnish a nine days' wonder.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to taking off, such as: escape, evacuation, exit, exodus, flight, and passage.

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