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vb. (en-third-person singulartake off)
Usage examples of "takes off".
As the plane takes off he panics, thinking such thoughts as “.
She takes off the man's tunic she wears outdoors and tosses it behind the bar, then sluices some water from the pitcher over her face and neck.
Along comes an irresponsible urchin, who has not been growing much longer than the tree, with not twenty-five cents worth of clothing on him, and in five minutes takes off every pear, and retires into safe obscurity.
Here, no more false appearances, no possible plastering, the filth takes off its shirt, absolute nakedness, rout of illusions and of mirages, nothing more but what is, wearing the sinister face of what is ending.
Vholes, quiet and unmoved, as a man of so much respectability ought to be, takes off his close black gloves as if he were skinning his hands, lifts off his tight hat as if he were scalping himself, and sits down at his desk.
Then he takes off his back pack, rummages inside it and pulls out a package.
On the fifth day, Vetch, creeping behind a tree, takes off his belt, and makes a noose.
After an hour she goes up and takes off his shoes and covers him up.