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curtains off

curtains off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of curtain off.

Meaning of curtain off

Verb

curtain off (third-person singular simple present curtains off, present participle curtaining off, simple past and past participle curtained off)

  1. To separate, isolate or block by means of a curtain or other barrier.
    • The encircling, mile-high mountains of the Coeur d'Alene mining area, rich in lead, zinc and silver, curtain off the sunlight except for a few midday hours.1960 November 14, “Strike Town”, in Time
  2. (figuratively) To isolate.
    • I am talking about a way of regarding our world as amenable to investigation and interrogation without magic keys, special jargons and instruments, curtained-off practices.1993, Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, New York: Vintage, published 1994, Chapter Four, Section II, p. 312

Questions about curtains off

What is curtains off the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Curtains off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of curtain off.

Words near curtains off in the dictionary

  1. curtainings
  2. curtainless
  3. curtainlessness
  4. curtainlike
  5. curtains
  6. curtains off
  7. curtainsider
  8. curtainsiders
  9. curtainwall
  10. curtainwalls
  11. curtainwise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curtains off (page history and authors); curtain 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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