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made off with

made off with is the simple past and past participle of make off with.

Meaning of make off with

Verb

make off with (third-person singular simple present makes off with, present participle making off with, simple past and past participle made off with)

  1. (transitive) To steal (something) and flee.
    • "Supposing now that some of them were to slip into the boat at night and cut the cable, and make off with her? That would be a pretty go, that would."1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  2. To run away together with someone.
  3. (transitive) To capture (someone) and flee.
    • "Gaston: The Beast will make off with your children! He'll come after them in the night!"1991, Horward Ashman, The Mob Song - Beauty and the Beast

Questions about made off with

What is made off with the simple past and past participle of?
Made off with is the simple past and past participle of make off with.

Words near made off with in the dictionary

  1. made of money
  2. made of sterner stuff
  3. made of stone
  4. made of sugar
  5. made off
  6. made off with
  7. made off without payment
  8. made one
  9. made one's bed
  10. made one's bed and lain in it
  11. made one's bed and lay in it

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