work sth off
— phrasal verb with work uk/wɜːk/us/wɝːk/verb
If you work off an unpleasant feeling, you get rid of it by doing something energetic:
She works off stress by running for at least half an hour every day.
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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