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Off and Devoid

off

verb

adjective

  • Not in operation or operational.
    • usage: "the oven is off"; "the lights are off"
  • Below a satisfactory level.
    • usage: "an off year for tennis"; "his performance was off"
  • Of events. ( no longer planned or scheduled)
    • usage: "the wedding is definitely off"
  • In an unpalatable state.
    • usage: "sour milk"
  • Not performing or scheduled for duties.
    • usage: "He's off every Tuesday"

adverb

  • From a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete. )
    • usage: "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach"
  • At a distance in space or time)
    • usage: "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away. "; "away back in the 18th century"
  • No longer on or in contact or attached.
    • usage: "clean off the dirt"; "he shaved off his mustache"
  • (adv.) Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.
  • (n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
  • (interj.) Away; begone; -- a command to depart.
  • (prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.
  • (a.) On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg.
  • (adv.) In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:.
  • (adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.
  • (adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.
  • (adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
  • (adv.) Denoting opposition or negation.
  • (a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics.

adjective

  • Completely wanting or lacking.
    • usage: "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"