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vb. (en-third-person singularpush off)
Usage examples of "pushes off".
Telephone poles, stop signs -- she runs at them, catches hold as though just saved from falling, gives them an exploratory rub with each hand, and then, tossing her head back, pushes off toward the next upright shadow that smears across her eye.
He pauses a moment before leaving the safety of the boat, pushes off when she surfaces, treading water, twenty feet from him.
He finally gives Moore the go-ahead, and Moore breathes in deep and pushes off.
He pushes off a little and sees that the hub of the device has also lowered itself to the rock.
I give the android the thumbs-up signal again and watch as he pushes off in the moonlight, spinning once, then steadying the sled expertly with his short ice hammer, chips flying, and then hurtling over the brink and out of sight for a minute.
According to the invariable usage of the fishery, the whale-boat pushes off from the ship, with the headsman or whale-killer as temporary steersman, and the harpooneer or whale-fastener pulling the foremost oar, the one known as the harpooneer-oar.
They're also going to take measures to establish him a protective residency in Fargone Blue Zone: the team is on its way Sunday, when Atlantis pushes off for Fargone.