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whisk off

whisk off verb: to rapidly remove.

Verb

whisk off (third-person singular simple present whisks off, present participle whisking off, simple past and past participle whisked off)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) to rapidly remove.
    • He was whisked off to the hospital.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To take (a person) on a surprise romantic journey.
    • For our honeymoon, he whisked me off to the Bahamas.

Forms of whisk off

third-person singular presentwhisks off
present participlewhisking off
past participlewhisked off
pastwhisked off

Questions about whisk off

What does whisk off mean?
Whisk off means to rapidly remove.
What part of speech is whisk off?
Whisk off is a verb.
What is the past tense of whisk off?
The past tense of whisk off is whisked off.

Words near whisk off in the dictionary

  1. whishtly
  2. whisk
  3. whisk away
  4. whisk fern
  5. whisk ferns
  6. whisk off
  7. whisk'd
  8. Whiska Creek
  9. whiskable
  10. whiskbroom
  11. whiskbrooms

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