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bore off from

bore off from is the simple past of bear off from.

Meaning of bear off from

Verb

bear off from (third-person singular simple present bears off from, present participle bearing off from, simple past bore off from, past participle borne off from)

  1. To stand further off from (a ship)

Questions about bore off from

What is bore off from the simple past of?
Bore off from is the simple past of bear off from.

Words near bore off from in the dictionary

  1. bore lake
  2. bore lakes
  3. bore needle
  4. bore needles
  5. bore off
  6. bore off from
  7. bore on
  8. bore oneself
  9. bore out
  10. bore sight
  11. bore sighted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bore off from (page history and authors); bear off from (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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