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SHAKE OFF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Get rid of
Example:
shed your clothes
Synonyms:
cast; cast off; drop; shake off; shed; throw; throw away; throw off
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "shake off" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shake off"):
exuviate; molt; moult; shed; slough (cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers)
abscise (shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue)
exfoliate (cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters)
autotomise; autotomize (cause a body part to undergo autotomy)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Get rid of
Example:
I couldn't shake the car that was following me
Synonyms:
escape from; shake; shake off; throw off
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "shake off" is one way to...):
break loose; escape; get away (run away from confinement)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
With which words she hurried into the house, as if to shake off the responsibility of my appearance; and left me standing at the garden-gate, looking disconsolately over the top of it towards the parlour window, where a muslin curtain partly undrawn in the middle, a large round green screen or fan fastened on to the windowsill, a small table, and a great chair, suggested to me that my aunt might be at that moment seated in awful state.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
White Fang sprang to his feet and tore wildly around, trying to shake off the bull-dog's body.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
At such times he would shake off sleep and creep through the chill to the flap of the tent, where he would stand and listen to the sound of his master’s breathing.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
For an instant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spirit, but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Round and round and back again, stumbling and falling and rising, even uprearing at times on his hind-legs and lifting his foe clear of the earth, he struggled vainly to shake off the clinging death.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
