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DOFF
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they doff ... he / she / it doffs
Past simple: doffed
Past participle: doffed
-ing form: doffing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove
Example:
He doffed his hat
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "doff" is one way to...):
take off (remove clothes)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
Alleyne doffed hat and bowed head at the sight of him, but the serf folded his hands and leaned them upon his cudgel, looking with little love at the knot of nobles and knights-in-waiting who rode behind the king.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
