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squared off

squared off is the simple past and past participle of square off.

Meaning of square off

Verb

square off (third-person singular simple present squares off, present participle squaring off, simple past and past participle squared off)

  1. (Canada, US, intransitive) To get ready for a confrontation (debate, argument, fight).
    • Hey, man, don't square off on me with some bullshit.1984, Daniel Petrie Jr., Beverly Hills Cop, spoken by Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), Paramount Pictures
    Synonyms:
    square up
    Antonyms:
    stand down
  2. (industrial design) To increase the boxiness of (a design).
    • After the aeronautically inspired curvaceous designs of the 1930s and 1940s, many American automotive designs of the 1950s through 1970s were somewhat more squared off.
    Antonyms:
    round off

Questions about squared off

What is squared off the simple past and past participle of?
Squared off is the simple past and past participle of square off.

Words near squared off in the dictionary

  1. squared
  2. squared around
  3. squared away
  4. squared circle
  5. squared circles
  6. squared off
  7. squared the circle
  8. squared up
  9. squaredly
  10. squaredness
  11. squareflipper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: squared off (page history and authors); square 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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