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paired off

paired off is the simple past and past participle of pair off.

Meaning of pair off

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.

Questions about paired off

What is paired off the simple past and past participle of?
Paired off is the simple past and past participle of pair off.

Words near paired off in the dictionary

  1. pairbonds
  2. pairbreaking
  3. paire
  4. paired
  5. paired and shared
  6. paired off
  7. paired up
  8. paired-end tag
  9. paired-end tags
  10. pairedness
  11. pairer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paired off (page history and authors); pair off (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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