"shrug off" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: shrugs off [present, singular, third-person], shrugging off [participle, present], shrugged off [participle, past], shrugged off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} shrug off (third-person singular simple present shrugs off, present participle shrugging off, simple past and past participle shrugged off)
  1. (transitive) To ignore or disregard; to be indifferent to. Tags: transitive Synonyms: misregard, take no notice of, tune out, ignore Translations (to disregard): ignorar (Catalan), ignorer (French), ignorare (Italian), infischiarsene (Italian), ignorar (Portuguese), ignorar (Spanish), ipagkibit-balikat (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-shrug_off-en-verb-StX8y0yM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (off)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for shrug off meaning in English (2.5kB)

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