take sth off
— phrasal verb with take uk/teɪk/us/teɪk/verb took, taken
(REMOVE)
A2 to remove something, especially clothes:
He took off his clothes and got into the shower.
After the poisoning scare, the product was taken off the shelves/the market (= removed from sale).
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- He took off his shoes to cool his sweaty feet.
- When he took off his hat, we saw that he was completely bald!
- Oops - I forgot to take the price label off your present.
- She took off her rings to do the washing-up, and now she can't find them.
- The doctor told me to take off my shirt so he could listen to my chest.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not wearing or removing clothes
- altogether
- bare
- barefoot
- bareheaded
- birthday
- buff
- commando
- fling
- in shirtsleeves idiom
- in the buff idiom
- in the raw idiom
- in your birthday suit idiom
- in your stocking(ed) feet idiom
- shirtsleeve
- shuck
- shuck sth off
- slip
- slip out of sth
- streak
- streaker
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(NOT WORK)
B2 to spend time away from your work:
He took two weeks off in September.
More examples
- I need to take some time off to see my mother.
- I took the whole summer off to work on my book.
- We're planning to take some time off at Christmas.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Time off
- absentee
- Boxing Day
- break
- career break
- comp time
- compassionate leave
- holiday
- hols
- legal holiday
- parental leave
- paternity leave
- public holiday
- R and R
- recess
- sickie
- skive
- tea break
- time off in lieu
- toil
- weekend
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