BEAR OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bear off mean? 

• BEAR OFF (verb)
  The verb BEAR OFF has 1 sense:

1. remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state

  Familiarity information: BEAR OFF used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEAR OFF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bear away; bear off; carry away; carry off; take away

Context example:

I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry

Hypernyms (to "bear off" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

"Bear off" entails doing...:

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bear off"):

spirit away (carry away rapidly and secretly, as if mysteriously)

spirit away; spirit off (carry off mysteriously; as if by magic)

whisk away; whisk off (take away quickly and suddenly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something