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fling off

fling off verb: to cast away; to disown, abandon.

Verb

fling off (third-person singular simple present flings off, present participle flinging off, simple past and past participle flung off)

  1. To cast away; to disown, abandon.
    • He has flung us off; and leaves us to poverty.1847, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, section XXIV
  2. To throw out (a word or phrase); to exclaim.
    • ‘Oh how I detest modern life!’ she flung off.1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XIV, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC
  3. To quickly take off (clothing)
    • She flung off her bra.

Forms of fling off

third-person singular presentflings off
present participleflinging off
past participleflung off
pastflung off

Questions about fling off

What does fling off mean?
Fling off means to cast away; to disown, abandon.
What part of speech is fling off?
Fling off is a verb.
What is the past tense of fling off?
The past tense of fling off is flung off.

Words near fling off in the dictionary

  1. flindersia
  2. flindersias
  3. flindosa
  4. flindosy
  5. fling
  6. fling off
  7. fling out
  8. flinged
  9. flingee
  10. flingees
  11. flinger

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