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vb. (present participle of put off English)
Usage examples of "putting off".
And putting off her wedding, which was now less than a fortnight away.
Looking beyond her, across the water, he observed a boat putting off from one of the great ships, which, hove to now, were rocking gently some three hundred yards away.
Out of these conditions grew the Southern habit of putting off till to-morrow and the day after the duty that should be done promptly to-day.
Ihryk and Tennetty hunted deer, duck, and rabbit, gathered wild garlic, onions, chotte, burdock, maikhe, and tacktob for the stewpot, stretching the supply of dried beef and putting off the time when it would become necessary to start converting the chickens from egglayers into roasters.
One would think you would have grown a little less excitable since putting off novice white.
Yet ever had he hesitated, putting off that disclosure until the season should appear more fitting.
Already one or two wherries were putting off from the wharf to board her.
Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the northeast coast, and putting off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked into the sea in my leathern jerkin, about half an hour before high water.
Diminishing to its former size, and putting off its colors of blood and opal, it hung for a little above the chasm.
And though for a while after he was turned friar, he laid aside the love he bore his gossip, and certain other vanities, yet in course of time, without putting off the habit, he resumed them, and began to take a pride in his appearance, and to go dressed in fine clothes, and to be quite the trim gallant, and to compose songs and sonnets and ballades, and to sing them, and to make a brave shew in all else that pertained to his new character.
He knew that he had been putting off their departure, but could do so no longer.
It has engendered or confirmed in him a habit of putting off—.
It serves me right for putting off to sea in such a devil's craft as this!