walk sth off
— phrasal verb with walk uk/wɔːk/us/wɑːk/verb
to walk in order to try and get rid of pain or an unpleasant feeling such as anger:
I'm going out to walk off this headache.
She twisted her ankle and tried to walk it off, but it hurt too much.
He managed to walk off his bad mood.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw sth away/out
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- weed
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