lift off
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]lift off (third-person singular simple present lifts off, present participle lifting off, simple past and past participle lifted off)
- Synonym of take off (leave the ground and begin flight).
- To lift something physically off the ground, or off something else.
- 2026 January 21, Vitali Vitaliev, “By train to a New World”, in RAIL, number 1053, page 68:
- We then had to endure a four-hour-long change of bogies at Brest - from the Soviet 1520mm-wide gauge to the 1435mm Polish and West European - when our carriage, with passengers inside, was lifted off the track by giant railway jacks, giving us a brief and not entirely unpleasant feeling of levitation.
Usage notes
[edit]- Used especially of rockets.