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{
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"present",
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},
{
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},
{
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"past"
]
},
{
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"word": "go off at score"
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"word": "go off half-cocked"
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"word": "go off on one"
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"(intransitive) To explode."
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"text": "The gun went off during their struggle.",
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"text": "It all went off when the opposing teams' fans met at the railway station.",
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"text": "The alarm will go off at six a.m.",
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},
{
"text": "Just after he spotted the first plane on the horizon, sirens started to go off around the city.",
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"text": "We were watching TV when suddenly the power went off."
}
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"To stop operating; to switch off."
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"text": "Having sated her appetite, she went off in search of a place to sleep.",
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{
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{
"text": "Bugger—the milk's gone off already!",
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},
{
"text": "1987 September 3, Unpalatable Treatment, New Scientist, page 20,\nBut to cast out a technique that could not only reduce the incidence of food poisoning but could also allow us to move away from another bete noire of the “technophobes” — chemical treatment to prevent stored grain from going off— is daft"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Neil Perry, The Food I Love, page 13",
"text": "Don′t expect to store fragile food like fish, poultry and meat in the refrigerator at home for a long period of time, as it will go off quickly.",
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{
"ref": "2005, Nancy Abeiderrahmane, “Modern Dairy Products from Traditional Camel Herding: An Experience in Mauritania”, in Bernard Faye, Palmated Esenov, editors, Desertification Combat And Food Safety: The Added Value Of Camel Producers, page 156",
"text": "Although there is a popular myth about camel milk ‘never going off’, experience shows that pasteurised packaged camel milk does not keep any better than its cow equivalent, and seems to lose its flavour faster.",
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"(intransitive, UK, Australia) To putrefy or become inedible, or to become unusable in any way."
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"word": "podrir-se"
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"word": "κόβω"
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{
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"word": "andare a male"
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},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "févgo",
"sense": "depart; leave",
"word": "φεύγω"
},
{
"code": "el",
"english": "on a trip",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anachoró",
"sense": "depart; leave",
"word": "αναχωρώ"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "depart; leave",
"word": "abeo"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "depart; leave",
"word": "abscedo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ujezžátʹ",
"sense": "depart; leave",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уезжа́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "by any transportation",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ujéxatʹ",
"sense": "depart; leave",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уе́хать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uxodítʹ",
"sense": "depart; leave",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уходи́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "on foot",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ujtí",
"sense": "depart; leave",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уйти́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "depart; leave",
"word": "marcharse"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "podrir-se"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "tornar-se incomestible"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "bederven"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "pilaantua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "pahentua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "mennä pilalle"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "schlecht werden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "milk",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "sauer werden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "butter",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "ranzig werden"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chaláo",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "χαλάω"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "alloiónomai",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "αλλοιώνομαι"
},
{
"code": "el",
"english": "milk",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "xinízo",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "ξινίζω"
},
{
"code": "el",
"english": "milk",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kóvo",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "κόβω"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "avariare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "andare a male"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"word": "guastare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pórtitʹsja",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "по́ртиться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ispórtitʹsja",
"sense": "putrefy; become inedible",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "испо́ртиться"
}
],
"word": "go off"
}
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