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make off with

make off with verb: to steal (something) and flee.

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

make off with meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

make off with in Hindi

to make off with, steal
ग़ायब करना ġāyab karnā

make off with in Tamil

திருடிக்கொண்டு ஓடு, கடத்து

make off with in Malayalam

flee, run away, run off
ധൃതിയിൽ ഓടിപ്പോകുക, രക്ഷപ്പെടാനെന്നവണ്ണം ദ്രുതഗതിയിൽ പോകുക, കടന്നുകളയുക, പലായനം ചെയ്യുക, കടക്കുക, പുറകിടുക

make off with in Kannada

ಕದ್ದ ಸಾಮಾನಿನೊಡನೆ ಓಡಿಹೋಗು, ಸಾಮಾನಿನ ಸಹಿತ ಪಲಾಯನ ಮಾಡು

Forms of make off with

third-person singular presentmakes off with
present participlemaking off with
past participlemade off with
pastmade off with

Questions about make off with

What does make off with mean?
Make off with means to steal (something) and flee.
What is make off with in Hindi?
Make off with in Hindi is ग़ायब करना (ġāyab karnā). See Make off with meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is make off with?
Make off with is a verb.
What is the past tense of make off with?
The past tense of make off with is made off with.

Words near make off with in the dictionary

  1. make noise
  2. make noises
  3. make nothing of
  4. make of
  5. make off
  6. make off with
  7. make off without payment
  8. make old bones
  9. make one
  10. make one's bed
  11. make one's bed and lie in it

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: make off with (page history and authors); ग़ायब करना (Hindi) (page history and authors); make off with (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); make off with (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); make off with (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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