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单词 put off
释义 put off
verb
Etymology: Middle English putten of, from putten to put + of off
transitive verb
1. : disconcert, repel
 < don't be put off by the ghastly jacket — B.C.L.Keelan >
 < in this way you may put off as many as you persuade — A.P.Herbert >
2.
 a. : delay, postpone
  < many girls tend to put off marriage until they are older — Robert Reid >
  < somehow the time for departure must be put off — Lyle Saxon >
 b. : to get rid of for the time being or to induce to wait
  < put the bill collector off for another month >
  < I'd forgotten it was that night … can't you put him off? — Nigel Balchin >
 c. : to turn the attention of from some design or purpose : dissuade, elude, frustrate
  < had put a robber off with a show of unconcern >
  < was so importunate it was impossible to put him off >
3.
 a. : to take off : rid oneself of
  < put his coat off >
  < you had your choosing, and it's time you'd put off your flightiness — Mary Deasy >
 b. : to dispose of
  < second litters can be put off in autumn as porkers — A.Longwill >
 c. : to sell or pass fraudulently
  < a moon-eyed roan that some slick trader had put off on him — F.B.Gipson >
  < put off a counterfeit ten-dollar bill >
4. : to push or send off (a boat) from land or another boat
 < the pinnace was put off from the yacht — William Black >
 < let me cut the cable, and when we are put off, fall to their throats — Shakespeare >
intransitive verb
: to leave land
 < the inhabitants then put off in boats and salvaged the cargo of the wrecked boat — American Guide Series: New Jersey >
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