Synonyms
- bail
- bail out
- begone
- book [slang]
- bug off
- bug out
- bugger off [British slang]
- buzz (off)
- clear off [chiefly British]
- clear out
- cut out
- depart
- dig out
- exit
- get
- get off
- go
- go off
- move
- pack (up or off)
- part
- peel off
- pike (out or off)
- pull out
- push on
- quit
- run along
- sally (forth)
- scarper [British]
- shove (off)
- step (along)
- take off
- vamoose
- walk out
Examples of push off in a Sentence
let's push off while it's still early enough to beat the evening rush
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But Rojas, who has hopes of becoming the first Latino speaker of the House, is less than happy about pushing off that possibility from the end of a third Ritter term as speaker in January 2027 to the conclusion of a fourth one in 2029.
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Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 9 Dec. 2024
Longer term, the law aims to undo a U.N. apparatus that Israel has regarded as problematic ever since it was established to provide for the needs of the 700,000 Palestinian refugees who were pushed off the land that became Israel.
—Karl Vick, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
The storms pushing off the Pacific are the result of an atmospheric river, a corridor of air heavy with moisture that forms when warmer air from the tropics moves toward the poles.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2024
What is Voyager 1? Currently located some 15.4 billion miles from our planet, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been pushing off into deep space since its launch on September 5, 1977.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 9 Dec. 2024
Longer term, the law aims to undo a U.N. apparatus that Israel has regarded as problematic ever since it was established to provide for the needs of the 700,000 Palestinian refugees who were pushed off the land that became Israel.
—Karl Vick, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
The storms pushing off the Pacific are the result of an atmospheric river, a corridor of air heavy with moisture that forms when warmer air from the tropics moves toward the poles.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2024
What is Voyager 1? Currently located some 15.4 billion miles from our planet, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been pushing off into deep space since its launch on September 5, 1977.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Push off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/push%20off. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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