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lifts off

lifts off is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 lifts off

What is lifts off the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lifts off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lift off.

Words near lifts off in the dictionary

  1. liftovers
  2. lifts
  3. lifts a finger
  4. lifts all boats
  5. lifts down
  6. lifts off
  7. lifts one's game
  8. lifts oneself up by one's boot-tags
  9. lifts oneself up by one's bootstraps
  10. lifts oneself up by one's own boot-tags
  11. lifts oneself up by one's own bootstraps

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