"shake off" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: shakes off [present, singular, third-person], shaking off [participle, present], shook off [past], shaken off [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|shake<,,shook,shaken> off}} shake off (third-person singular simple present shakes off, present participle shaking off, simple past shook off, past participle shaken off)
  1. To remove (something attached to, on or clinging to an object) by shaking. Synonyms: forshake Translations (to remove by shaking): اِنْتَفَضَ (intafaḍa) (Arabic), отърсвам (otǎrsvam) (Bulgarian), pudistella (Finnish), puistella (Finnish), karistaa (Finnish), secouer (French), sacudir (Galician), escudir [archaic] (Galician), abschütteln (German), puistaa (Ingrian), scrollarsi di dosso (qualcosa o qualcuno) (Italian), ruirui (Maori), otrząsać [imperfective] (Polish), otrząsnąć [perfective] (Polish), sacudir (Spanish), kukung'uta (Swahili), உதறு (utaṟu) (Tamil)
    Sense id: en-shake_off-en-verb--VJ3amlD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "off", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Ingrian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swahili translations, Terms with Tamil translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 58 9 7 26 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "off": 54 11 9 26 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 51 11 11 27 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 58 8 7 27 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 62 5 5 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 55 10 9 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 56 9 12 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 53 10 12 25 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 53 12 12 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 53 10 12 25 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 55 9 10 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Ingrian translations: 55 10 10 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 56 10 10 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 53 10 12 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 48 13 15 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 56 9 11 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Swahili translations: 56 10 10 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Tamil translations: 50 9 18 23 Disambiguation of 'to remove by shaking': 89 5 4 2
  2. To dissociate oneself from (an allegation or rumour). Translations (to dissociate oneself from): отричам (otričam) (Bulgarian), karistaa harteiltaan (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-shake_off-en-verb-ZxSAsqn1 Disambiguation of 'to dissociate oneself from': 6 87 2 5
  3. To lose someone who is tracking you. Translations (to lose someone tracking): karistaa kannoiltaan (Finnish), päästä karkuun (Finnish), semer (French), abschütteln (German), liberarsi di (qualcosa o qualcuno) (Italian), seminare (qualcosa o qualcuno) (Italian)
    Sense id: en-shake_off-en-verb-S2kvmIVV Disambiguation of 'to lose someone tracking': 8 5 85 2
  4. To rid oneself of a malady or its symptoms Translations (to rid oneself of a malady): päästä eroon (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-shake_off-en-verb-DOrxlUAf Disambiguation of 'to rid oneself of a malady': 4 7 2 87

Inflected forms

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        "To lose someone who is tracking you."
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          "_dis1": "8 5 85 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to lose someone tracking",
          "word": "abschütteln"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to lose someone tracking",
          "word": "liberarsi di (qualcosa o qualcuno)"
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      "sense": "to remove by shaking",
      "word": "sacudir"
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      "sense": "to remove by shaking",
      "word": "kukung'uta"
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      "sense": "to remove by shaking",
      "word": "உதறு"
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      "sense": "to lose someone tracking",
      "word": "karistaa kannoiltaan"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to lose someone tracking",
      "word": "päästä karkuun"
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to lose someone tracking",
      "word": "semer"
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      "sense": "to lose someone tracking",
      "word": "abschütteln"
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      "sense": "to lose someone tracking",
      "word": "liberarsi di (qualcosa o qualcuno)"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.