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pair off

pair off verb: to separate into groups of two.

Verb

pair off (third-person singular simple present pairs off, present participle pairing off, simple past and past participle paired off)

  1. (intransitive) To separate into groups of two.
  2. (transitive) To join two people into a relationship.
  3. (dated, intransitive) To agree with one of the opposite party or opinion to abstain from voting on specified questions or issues.

pair off meaning in Malayalam

pair off in Malayalam

team up, get together, form a couple
ഇണയായി തിരിയുക, കൂട്ടുചേരുക, ജോടിയായിരിക്കുക, ഒരുമിച്ചുകൂടുക, ഒരുമിച്ചുചേരുക, ഒരുമിക്കുക

Forms of pair off

third-person singular presentpairs off
present participlepairing off
past participlepaired off
pastpaired off

Questions about pair off

What does pair off mean?
Pair off means to separate into groups of two.
What is pair off in Malayalam?
Pair off in Malayalam is ഇണയായി തിരിയുക, കൂട്ടുചേരുക, ജോടിയായിരിക്കുക. See Pair off meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is pair off?
Pair off is a verb.
What is the past tense of pair off?
The past tense of pair off is paired off.

Words near pair off in the dictionary

  1. pair of sunglasses
  2. pair of tongs
  3. pair of trousers
  4. pair of tweezers
  5. pair of underwear
  6. pair off
  7. pair production
  8. pair productions
  9. pair programmer
  10. pair programming
  11. pair royal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pair off (page history and authors); pair off (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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