Off and Inactive

verb

• Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
  • usage: "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
  • synonyms: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, polish off, remove

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"
  • synonyms: cancelled
• In an unpalatable state.
  • usage: "sour milk"
  • synonyms: sour, turned
• 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• From a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete.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"
  • synonyms: away, forth
• 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"
  • synonyms: away
• 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

• Chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert. (
  • usage: "desired amounts of inactive chlorine"
• Pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly. (
• Military) not involved in military operations.
  • synonyms: nonoperational
• Not exerting influence or change.
• Of e. G. Volcanos. ( not erupting and not extinct )
  • usage: "a dormant volcano"
  • synonyms: dormant
• Lacking in energy or will."Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself- George Meredith
  • synonyms: passive
• Lacking activity; lying idle or unused.
  • usage: "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery"
• Not engaged in full-time work.
  • usage: "inactive reserve"; "an inactive member"
• Not active physically or mentally.
  • usage: "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature"
• Not in physical motion.
  • usage: "the inertia of an object at rest"
  • synonyms: motionless, static, still

• (a.) Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.
• (a.) Not disposed to action or effort; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle; as, an inactive officer.
• (a.) Not active; inert; especially, not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive tartaric acid.