push off
verb
pushed off; pushing off; pushes off
intransitive verb
: set out
we pushed off for home
Synonyms
- bail
- bail out
- begone
- book [slang]
- bug off
- bug out
- bugger off [British slang]
- buzz (off)
- clear off [chiefly British]
- clear out
- cut out
- depart
- dig out
- exit
- get
- get off
- go
- go off
- move
- pack (up or off)
- part
- peel off
- pike (out or off)
- pull out
- push on
- quit
- run along
- sally (forth)
- scarper [British]
- shove (off)
- step (along)
- take off
- vamoose
- walk out
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Example Sentences
let's push off while it's still early enough to beat the evening rush
Word History
First Known Use
1740, in the meaning defined above
pushed off
verb
as in exited
to leave a place often for another let's push off while it's still early enough to beat the evening rush Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- exited
- departed
- moved
- pushed on
- pulled out
- got off
- went
- got
- peeled off
- dug out
- walked out
- went off
- ran along
- cut out
- cleared off
- escaped
- cleared out
- bailed out
- evacuated
- fled
- beat it
- bugged out
- started
- buggered off
- took off
- quit
- set out
- flew
- parted
- bugged off
- stepped (along)
- bailed
- pulled stakes
- hit the road
- pulled up stakes
- took a walk
- took a hike
- took a powder
- retired
- buzzed (off)
- shoved (off)
- withdrew
- quitted
- packed (up or off)
- got out
- struck out
- booked
- emigrated
- stepped out
- retreated
- sallied (forth)
- went out
- scarpered
- ran away
- vamoosed
- skipped
- piked (out or off)
- removed
- mizzled
- abandoned
- lit
- deserted
- lighted out
- absconded
- scrammed
- vacated
- decamped
- forsook
- scatted
- adjourned
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- came
- arrived
- turned up
- remained
- stayed
- settled
- showed up
- lodged
- dwelt
- closed
- approached
- reached
- hit
- neared
- abode
- abided
- dwelled
- landed
- tarried
- refrains from
- reframe
- reframed
- reframes
- reframing
- refranation
- refrangent
- refrangibilities
- refrangibility
- refrangible
- refrangibleness
- refrangiblenesses
- refreeze
- refreezes
- refreezing
- refrenation
- refresh
- refresh someone's memory
- refreshable
- refreshant
- refreshed
- refreshen
- refreshened
- refresheners
- refreshening