TAKEN OFF Synonyms: 215 Similar and Opposite Words

taken off

verb

past participle of take off

as in moved

to leave a place often for another I can only stay for a few minutes, and then I'll need to take off again

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as in removed

to rid oneself of (a garment) take off your coat and stay awhile

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as in deducted

to take away (an amount or number) from a total the store will take an additional 20% off if you bring in this coupon

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as in stolen (from)

slang to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully a gangbanger who decided to take off some fast-food joint

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Recent Examples of taken off Lane was injured on a kickoff return in the third quarter and taken off the field on a cart. — ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026 While Microsoft maintains a dominant position in business software through Office, its flagship work AI product hasn’t taken off. — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026 But points must be taken off for thinking a lesbian nun would only have gotten laid as a layperson. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026 Brown immediately left the game and had to be taken off the sidelines in an injury cart. — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026 Christos Tzolis has had an impressive start to life at Arsenal, but struggled to grow into that game, and was taken off at half-time. — Art De Roché, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Headlines from the early 2020s were filled with Teslas burning in garages and Chevy Bolts taken off the road due to flammable batteries. — Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2026 Similar measures have taken off in roughly a dozen others, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026 The peregrine falcon, the world’s fastest bird once pushed to the brink of extinction in the United States, has recovered enough to be taken off the endangered species list. — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 20 Aug. 2026

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Verb

This week, SpaceX moved one step closer to its goal of building its direct-to-device Starlink Mobile service after the FCC approved the aerospace company’s application to deploy and operate 15,000 next-generation Starlink satellites.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
On the day Erica and Peter moved into 150 Charles, their attorney claims, they were greeted with a cluttered and dirty space that didn’t square with the $26,000-a-month rent.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 8 Oct. 2026

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Under this strategy, a person borrows a set amount from his or her 401(k) account and slowly replenishes the account over time through payments deducted automatically from pay stubs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
Also, shipping charges are non-refundable, and a restocking fee of $10 will be deducted from the refund.

— Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of deducted

Verb

But Garrett Mitchell tracked it down, leaped at the wall, and robbed Machado on the warning track.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
What about the impact on other clubs and fans, who were potentially robbed of titles, trophies, money, parades, memories?

— Matt Piper, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of robbed

Verb

Some of them were put off by élite football’s deliberate lack of culture—staunch apoliticism is easy to sell to Sky Sports—and others had been priced out.

— Vanda Mayer, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2026
But don’t be put off by produce that doesn’t look picture-perfect.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of put off

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The Regional Parks Department said on social media that at least 10 light poles and several street signs were knocked over.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Thibodeaux then came over knocked over Jackson remained on the field but was replaced by Caedan Wallace on the next set of team drills.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of knocked over

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Eisner, Diller’s second in command, departed for Disney when he didn’t get promoted, and he was soon followed out the door by another rising young executive, Jeffrey Katzenberg.

— Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
Bailey departed Burberry in 2018 and was succeeded as chief creative officer by Riccardo Tisci, formerly the creative director at Givenchy (Marco Gobbetti took over Bailey’s CEO role in 2017).

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026