What is "shrugged off"

Usage examples of "shrugged off".

Had not the Divine Seed shrugged off diseases that annihilated whole populations of scumvermin?

They had shrugged off the petty laws and restrictions of city life, returning to the simplest world they had ever known.

Cursing the lack of visibility, he shrugged off his jacket and jackknifed down through the shifting darkness until he felt the outline of the hearse’.

I slapped the quick-release catch on my chest harness and shrugged off the fuel tanks as it closed within four feet.

In a fit of desperation, I shrugged off two of my handlers, swung my fists, punched and kicked at the flesh that was trying to envelope me.

At last he shrugged off the dark lethargy that plagued him and stood.

The enormous vessel upon which the monster's great enemy came had simply shrugged off the missiles.

She handed her flute to Lieutenant Yar, then shrugged off her gray cloak and dropped it onto the steps leading to the transporter.

High Ridge shrugged off the pointed reminder and tugged delicately at the lobe of one ear.

He shrugged off his pack and handed it to the nearest of the guards armed with crossbows and hand-forged swords.

But Pyre's intended target, its eyes, escaped destruction, and the creature's more decentralized nervous system shrugged off the brain damage as if not noticing it.

And it can't be shrugged off as another instance of aristocratic fatuity.

He shrugged off his backpack and unzipped it, pulling out a metallic boxy contraption as big as both his hands: a portable analyzer.

He shrugged off the ghosts and the silence, the studio, everything.