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clamped off

clamped off is the simple past and past participle of clamp off.

Meaning of clamp off

Verb

clamp off (third-person singular simple present clamps off, present participle clamping off, simple past and past participle clamped off)

  1. To stop or restrict the flow of, with (or as if with) a clamp.
    • Calls to unity are almost always issued when one party wants to clamp off debate.1980 April 5, Mary Burns, “Aggrieved Surprise”, in Gay Community News, page 4

Questions about clamped off

What is clamped off the simple past and past participle of?
Clamped off is the simple past and past participle of clamp off.

Words near clamped off in the dictionary

  1. clampable
  2. clampdown
  3. clampdowns
  4. clamped
  5. clamped down on
  6. clamped off
  7. clampee
  8. clampees
  9. clamper
  10. clampered
  11. clampering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clamped off (page history and authors); clamp off (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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