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say it: awf
off is an adjective, adverb and verb meaning "not in operation or operational". It is pronounced /ˈɔf/ — awf. It carries 9 recorded senses.
(of events) no longer planned or scheduled
“the wedding is definitely off”
from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
“ran away from the lion”
“wanted to get away from there”
“sent the children away to boarding school”
“the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal”
“went off to school”
“they drove off”
“go forth and preach”
archaism
at a distance in space or time
“the boat was 5 miles off (or away)”
“the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)”
“away back in the 18th century”
no longer on or in contact or attached
“clean off the dirt”
“he shaved off his mustache”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for off come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.