lift off

lift off verb: synonym of take off (leave the ground and begin flight).

Verb

lift off (third-person singular simple present lifts off, present participle lifting off, simple past and past participle lifted off)

Synonym of take off (leave the ground and begin flight).

Synonyms:

take off
To lift something physically off the ground, or off something else.
- We then had to endure a four-hour-long change of bogies at Brest - from the Soviet 1520mm-wide gauge to the 1435mm Polish and West European - when our carriage, with passengers inside, was lifted off the track by giant railway jacks, giving us a brief and not entirely unpleasant feeling of...2026 January 21, Vitali Vitaliev, “By train to a New World”, in RAIL, number 1053, page 68

take to the air, take off, become airborne: നിലത്തുനിന്നു കുത്തനെഉയരുക, നിലത്തുനിന്നുയരുക, നിലത്തുനിന്നുപൊങ്ങുക, വിമാനം പുറപ്പെടുക, പറക്കാൻ തുടങ്ങുക, പറന്നുപൊങ്ങുക

third-person singular present	lifts off
present participle	lifting off
past participle	lifted off
past	lifted off

What does lift off mean?: Lift off means synonym of take off (leave the ground and begin flight).
What is lift off in Malayalam?: Lift off in Malayalam is നിലത്തുനിന്നു കുത്തനെഉയരുക, നിലത്തുനിന്നുയരുക, നിലത്തുനിന്നുപൊങ്ങുക. See Lift off meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is lift off?: Lift off is a verb.
What is the past tense of lift off?: The past tense of lift off is lifted off.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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