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lifting off

lifting off is the present participle and gerund of lift off.

Meaning of lift off

Verb

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

  1. Synonym of take off (leave the ground and begin flight).
    Synonyms:
    take off
  2. 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

Questions about lifting off

What is lifting off the present participle and gerund of?
Lifting off is the present participle and gerund of lift off.

Words near lifting off in the dictionary

  1. lifting chalk
  2. lifting down
  3. lifting gas
  4. lifting gases
  5. lifting gasses
  6. lifting off
  7. lifting one's game
  8. lifting oneself up by one's boot-tags
  9. lifting oneself up by one's bootstraps
  10. lifting oneself up by one's own boot-tags
  11. lifting oneself up by one's own bootstraps

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