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COME OFF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Happen in a particular manner
Example:
how did your talk go over?
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "come off" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s Adjective
Sense 2
Meaning:
Break off (a piece from a whole)
Example:
Her tooth chipped
Synonyms:
break away; break off; chip; chip off; come off
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "come off" is one way to...):
divide; part; separate (come apart)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come off"):
flake; flake off; peel; peel off (come off in flakes or thin small pieces)
exfoliate (come off in a very thin piece)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Come to be detached
Example:
His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "come off" is one way to...):
divide; part; separate (come apart)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come off"):
blow off (come off due to an explosion or other strong force)
chop off; cut off; lop off (remove by or as if by cutting)
unsolder (remove the soldering from)
fall off (come off)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Context examples:
Behold me, on the morrow, in a much-worn little white hat, with a black crape round it for my mother, a black jacket, and a pair of hard, stiff corduroy trousers—which Miss Murdstone considered the best armour for the legs in that fight with the world which was now to come off.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
