take off

A1 Topic:Clothing & Appearance Phrasal verb

Base verb: take

Meanings

1
verb
to remove clothing or footwear from the body
Phrasal verb · Separable

take something off / take off something

Usage: For clothing, the garment is the direct object: take off your coat, take your coat off. Put pronouns inside: take it off.

Please take off your muddy shoes before walking into the living room.
Sources and attribution

OpenAI Codex authors; independent AI editorial review recorded in the corpus review archive. — Original project editorial material; cleared for The Missing Workbook
- The Missing Workbook: original construction review
Please take off your muddy shoes before walking into the living room.
2
verb
to leave the ground and begin to fly
Phrasal verb · Intransitive

take off

Usage: For flight, the aircraft is the subject: the plane will take off. This sense has no direct object.

The rescue helicopter took off as soon as the injured climber was safely aboard.
Sources and attribution

OpenAI Codex authors; independent AI editorial review recorded in the corpus review archive. — Original project editorial material; cleared for The Missing Workbook
- The Missing Workbook: original construction review
The rescue helicopter took off as soon as the injured climber was safely aboard.

Verb forms

Verb forms are not available for this word yet.

Thesaurus

Word family

Forms taken offtakes offtaking offtook off

Related forms take

Topics

Clothing & Appearance

External links

# take off

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** verb

## Meanings
1. to remove clothing or footwear from the body
2. to leave the ground and begin to fly

## Usage Notes
- to remove clothing or footwear from the body: For clothing, the garment is the direct object: take off your coat, take your coat off. Put pronouns inside: take it off.
- to leave the ground and begin to fly: For flight, the aircraft is the subject: the plane will take off. This sense has no direct object.

## Examples
- Please take off your muddy shoes before walking into the living room.
- The rescue helicopter took off as soon as the injured climber was safely aboard.
- Please take off your muddy shoes before walking into the living room.
- The rescue helicopter took off as soon as the injured climber was safely aboard.

## Related Forms
- take

## Learning Sources
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors, with original notes and examples. Learning notes: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- [The Missing Workbook: original construction review](https://github.com/barisozmen/rails_english)

## Topics
- Clothing & Appearance

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