lift off

1. 1.

   depart from the ground

   “The plane took off two hours late”

   Synonymstake off

   Broaderdepart

Questions about lift off

What does lift off mean?

lift off means "depart from the ground".

What is another word for lift off?

Close synonyms include take off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lift off a common word?

lift off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.