"whisk off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-whisk off.ogg [Australia] Forms: whisks off [present, singular, third-person], whisking off [participle, present], whisked off [participle, past], whisked off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} whisk off (third-person singular simple present whisks off, present participle whisking off, simple past and past participle whisked off)
  1. (transitive, idiomatic) to rapidly remove. Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-whisk_off-en-verb-UqyjcCtJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (off) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 86 14 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 83 17
  2. (transitive, idiomatic) To take (a person) on a surprise romantic journey. Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-whisk_off-en-verb-UWBnEXag

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for whisk off meaning in English (1.8kB)

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