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scaled off

scaled off is the simple past and past participle of scale off.

Meaning of scale off

Verb

scale off (third-person singular simple present scales off, present participle scaling off, simple past and past participle scaled off)

  1. To peel off
    • Perhaps the surface of the red brick, long unpainted, had scaled off a little more here and there.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars

Questions about scaled off

What is scaled off the simple past and past participle of?
Scaled off is the simple past and past participle of scale off.

Words near scaled off in the dictionary

  1. scaled copies
  2. scaled copy
  3. scaled dove
  4. scaled doves
  5. scaled down
  6. scaled off
  7. scaled out
  8. scaled quail
  9. scaled quails
  10. scaled question
  11. scaled questions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scaled off (page history and authors); scale 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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