"start off" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "starts off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "starting off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "started off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "started off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "start off (third-person singular simple present starts off, present participle starting off, simple past and past participle started off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "73 0 27",
          "word": "start off on the right foot"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 0 27",
          "word": "start off on the wrong foot"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 0 27",
          "word": "to start off with"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She started off with a lullaby.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To begin."
      ],
      "id": "en-start_off-en-verb-hjbS4o23",
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        [
          "begin",
          "begin"
        ]
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        {
          "_dis": "15 51 34",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They started off on horseback.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set out on a trip."
      ],
      "id": "en-start_off-en-verb-16YXcCZ1"
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't start him off about that again.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To instigate someone to laugh or cry or to begin talking about something they often talk about."
      ],
      "id": "en-start_off-en-verb-TVL5kQa8"
    }
  ],
  "word": "start off"
}

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    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"off\"",
    "English verbs",
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "start off on the right foot"
    },
    {
      "word": "start off on the wrong foot"
    },
    {
      "word": "to start off with"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "starts off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "starting off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "started off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "started off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She started off with a lullaby.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To begin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "begin",
          "begin"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They started off on horseback.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set out on a trip."
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't start him off about that again.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To instigate someone to laugh or cry or to begin talking about something they often talk about."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "start off"
}